Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures - airports
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
Boeing Air Transport was the first air carrier to start service to the Oakland Airport 12/1927; the passenger carrier, Trans-World Airlines began service five years later. The US Army Air Corps took control of the field during 1943, making alterations in order to utilize it as a Pacific supply terminal for the remainer of the World War II.
This airport occupied 845 acres c. 1930; the major operations area covered 260 acres, where most of the main buildings stood.
PCAD id: 9357