Siskiyou County Airport
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Siskiyou County Airport Siskiyou County Air Force Auxiliary Airfield Siskiyou County Army Air Field |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Siskiyou County | ||||||||||
| Location | Montague, California | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,648 ft / 807 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°46′53.190″N 122°28′05.19″W / 41.78144167°N 122.4681083°WCoordinates: 41°46′53.190″N 122°28′05.19″W / 41.78144167°N 122.4681083°W | ||||||||||
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Siskiyou County Airport (IATA: SIY, ICAO: KSIY) is a public airport located three miles (4.8 km) northeast of Montague, serving Siskiyou County, California, United States. The airport has one runway and is mostly used for general aviation.
The Army Air Forces and the U.S. Air Force used the Siskiyou County Airport over two separate periods, from 1942 to 1945 and from 1962 to 1972. The site first served as an auxiliary field and later as a dispersal base.
The United States Army Air Forces first leased the Siskiyou County Airport on 18 November 1942. The airport was constructed with funds from the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA). The Army upgraded and extended the original 6,500 foot runways to 7,300 feet to handle bombardment aircraft. The Army also added taxiways, a night lighting system, a power control building and enclosed the field with a barbed wire fence. By fall of 1943, the airfield was a sub-base of Hamilton Field. With administration provided by Hamilton Field and without housing facilities, Siskiyou County Airport did not become a key installation.
On 1 May 1944, the Army Air Forces reassigned the airfield to the Chico Army Airfield (AAF). It remained an unmanned auxiliary field and primarily functioned as an emergency landing field for disabled aircraft or "itinerant army planes". Use of the airport in 1944 seems modest, as inspections found mud from cattle on the field at various times.
On 15 October that year, Chico AAF transferred jurisdiction of the Siskiyou County Airport to the Air Technical Service Command (ATSC). On 3 November 1944, the Interdepartmental Air Traffic Control Board approved use of field by Siskiyou County as an alternate airport for commercial scheduled air carrier operations. On 30 December 1944, the ATSC declared the Army Air Forces no longer needed the airport and recommended it for disposal. On 23 January 1945, the ATSC placed the airport on inactive status and subleased portions of the site for agricultural purposes.
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