San Bernardino International Airport
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| IATA: SBD – ICAO: KSBD – FAA LID: SBD SBD - | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | San Bernardino International Airport Authority (SBIA) | ||
| Operator | SBIA | ||
| Serves | San Bernardino / Inland Empire | ||
| Location | San Bernardino, California, USA | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,157 ft / 353.3 m | ||
| Coordinates | 34°05′43″N 117°14′06″W / 34.09528°N 117.235°W | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 6/24 | 10,001 | 3,048 | Concrete |
- For the United States Air Force use of this facility prior to March 1994, see Norton Air Force Base
San Bernardino International Airport (IATA: SBD, ICAO: KSBD, FAA LID: SBD) (SBIA) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) southeast of the central business district of San Bernardino, California, in San Bernardino County, California, USA. The airport covers 1,329 acres (538 ha) and has one runway. It is currently a general aviation and cargo airport located on the former site of Norton Air Force Base. A non-federal control tower (NFCT) began operation on November 9, 2008, operated under contract by SERCO company personnel. The new tower frequency is 119.45.
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[edit] Recent Developments
[edit] Grand Jury Investigation, FBI Raid, Director Resignation
Redevelopment of the airport has been embroiled in controversy. An audit completed June 2011 at the request of a grand jury investigation found significant mismanagement and financial irregularities[1]. In September 2011, as part of a special joint corruption task force, the FBI raided the airport and the home of airport developer Scot Spencer, a convicted felon who has been enjoined by the Federal government from having anything to do with aviation who nonetheless has been awarded numerous contracts at SBIA[2]. In late September 2011, Don Rogers, the long-time Director of the SBIA Authority (SBIAA) resigned in the wake of the FBI raid[3]. The aforementioned audit/grand jury report detailed a close relationship between Rogers and Spencer, including the recent quick settlement of a legal claim by companies owned by Spencer against the SBIAA for a sum of almost $1 million without ascertaining whether Spencer's companies did, in fact, suffer damages of such an amount.
[edit] History
[edit] Norton Air Force Base
The airbase opened shortly after the attacks on Pearl Harbor to protect the Southern California area. Norton was placed on the Department of Defense's base closure list in 1989 (the same year that the DoD signed the Federal Facilities Agreement with the EPA).
The closure was cited as due to environmental wastes, inadequate facilities, and air traffic congestion (due to air traffic from Ontario International Airport, 20 miles (32 km) west, and Los Angeles International Airport, 100 miles (160 km) west). The last of the facilities on the base were closed in 1995.
[edit] Status
U.S. Customs Service agents are available on call to clear imported goods. The airport is used as a base for United States Forest Service planes fighting forest fires. Several hangars that were formerly empty have recently been occupied by civilian-owned aircraft maintenance companies. The runway is 10,000 feet (3,000 m) long, easily accommodating air cargo aircraft. However, UPS Airlines and FedEx Express choose to use LA/Ontario International Airport to the west.
The airport and surrounding areas are within the City of San Bernardino, and the Inland Valley Development Agency. The airport and surrounding areas are being redeveloped by Hillwood.
Several major projects for the former air base and surrounding area are imminent or already under way, including Stater Bros. Markets which moved its corporate headquarters from Colton to the former air base site in September 2007. The 170,000-square-foot (16,000 m2) offices are completed. Stater Bros. began moving warehousing and distribution operations into a 2,100,000-square-foot (200,000 m2) facility in February 2007. Part of a $300 million-plus total investment in the city, the warehouse is the largest supermarket distribution facility in the nation, Brown said.
The airport has served as the filming location for both the 2001 movie The Fast and the Furious and the 2004 Martin Scorsese film The Aviator using a Lockheed Constellation preserved by the Airline History Museum, and flown in for the shoot, were done at San Bernardino International, with one hangar "dressed" as a Trans World Airlines facility. [4] [5]
[edit] Passenger Terminal
San Bernardino International Airport has a renovated passenger terminal capable of handling scheduled commercial service[6]. However, no scheduled commercial operations or airlines occupy the terminal.
The terminal was redeveloped by a company controlled by convicted felon Scot Spencer and another company controlled by Spencer was awarded a 25 year contract to run the terminal. The development company controlled by Spencer, which had no prior experience in airport development, bought used equipment from the old American Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, including 20 to 36 year-old jetbridges and seats, which it refurbished for use at SBIA. The audit/grand jury report concluded that the jetbridges were likely already at the end of their lifecycles, were unsuitable for the type of aircraft that SBIA was likely to attract and that new seats could likely have been bought for half the cost of the refurbished seats[1].
[edit] Location
The airport is located approximately 2 miles (3 km) east of downtown San Bernardino, 22 miles (29 km) east of Ontario and 14 miles (23 km) northeast of downtown Riverside. Motorists can either use the San Bernardino Freeway (Interstate 10), Barstow-Downtown San Bernardino-Riverside Freeway (Interstate 215), or the Foothill Freeway (State Route 210) to access the airport. It is also served by Omnitrans route 8.
[edit] See also
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[edit] References
- ^ a b http://www.sbcounty.gov/grandjury/pdf/report1011/adHoc_SBairport.pdf
- ^ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/fbi-raids-san-bernardino-airport-authority.html
- ^ http://www.sbsun.com/ci_18997615
- ^ http://www.airlinehistorymuseum.com/movie_1.htm
- ^ http://www.airliners.net/photo/Trans-World-Airlines/Lockheed-L-1049H-01-Super/0485031/L/
- ^ "SBD International Airport: Passenger Services". http://www.sbdairport.com/airport_services/passengerservices.htm. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
[edit] External links
- San Bernardino International Airport (official site)
- FAA Airport Master Record for SBD (Form 5010 PDF)
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective 12 January 2012
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KSBD
- ASN accident history for SBD
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
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