As mentioned in our previous article, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (FLAM) was established in 1989 at MCAS El Toro, a Marine Corps Air Station that was constructed during WWII and had, at ...

California’s old Marine Corps Air Station El Toro will get a second chance at life as a Cultural Terrace By Matt Hickman • January 20, 2022 • Architecture , Development , Editor's Picks ...

U.S. Marine Corps jets and helicopters could return to the decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station El Toro following an agreement inked by the ... the museum should stay in Southern California. ...

Orange County’s proposed airport at El Toro could be operated safely--but it would also create flight delays and inefficiencies across Southern California’s already crowded skies, according to ...

MCAS El Toro was closed in July 1999 under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, ... Local California Police Arrest 2 After Finding Stolen Items in Shuttered Marine Corps Facility.

General Bloomer retired from his position as the head of MCAS El Toro just days before Foote stole the Skyhawk. As for Howard Foote Jr.'s perspective on the relationship, he states: "Like Oliver ...

In November 1994, Orange County voters passed Measure A by a narrow margin, approving conversion of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station to a commercial airport. County government took command of the ...

The dedication of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, with a caption that reads: “Flying veterans of Guadalcanal, fresh from the South Pacific, pass in formation in commissioning ceremonies ...

An F-4B Phantom II of U.S. Marine Corps fighter-bomber squadron VMFA-122 Crusaders sits on the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro on Feb. 11, 1966.

The fixed-wing aircraft of the wing were based at the nearby Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. As late as the 1980s, MCAS Tustin was home to 5,000 Marines and their families.

The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum is expected to return to its original locale in Irvine, California, in late 2023 after losing its agreement last year to operate at Marine Corps Air Station ...