Southern California Logistics Airport
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Southern California Logistics Airport (IATA: VCV, ICAO: KVCV, FAA LID: VCV), also known as Victorville Airport, is a public airport located in the city of Victorville in San Bernardino County, California, approximately 50 mi (80 km) north of San Bernardino. Prior to its civil usage, the facility was George Air Force Base, from 1941 to 1992 a United States Air Force flight training facility.
The airport is home to Southern California Aviation, a large transitional facility for commercial aircraft.[1]
As a logistics airport, it is designed for business, military, and freight use. There are no commercial passenger services at this facility except for FBO and charter flights.
Facilities
Southern California Logistics Airport (SCLA) covers 2,300 acres (930 ha) and has two runways:
- Runway 17/35: 13,051 ft × 150 ft (3,978 m × 46 m), surface: asphalt/concrete
- Runway 03/21: 9,138 ft × 150 ft (2,785 m × 46 m), surface: asphalt/concrete
Southern California Logistics Centre, immediately adjacent to SCLA, offers a wide variety of new warehouse and distribution facilities, ranging from 2,000 sq ft (190 m2) to over 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2).[2]
The SCLA
History
The federal government was responsible for helping the Victor Valley recover from the closure of George Air Force Base in 1992. The conversion of the former George Air Force Base to SCLA was designed to provide major corporations with logistics needs, access to a global intermodal logistics gateway to the Western United States. Located near Interstate 15 in California's Victor Valley, the 5,000-acre (2,000 ha) complete intermodal business complex is approximately 20 mi (32 km) north of downtown San Bernardino, and 23 mi (37 km) north of San Bernardino International Airport.[3]
In July 2000, SCLA received
The
In late 2006, SCLA became home to Air
The 2007 Autonomous Vehicle Competition took place on the former George Air Force Base. DARPA selected the location because its network of urban roads best simulated the type of terrain American forces operate in when deployed overseas.[3]
N118UA, United Airlines' "Friend Ship" 747-400, arrived at the boneyard on November 9, 2017 to be stored. It was the final United 747 to carry passengers, flying its final revenue flight on November 7, 2017.
On November 2, 2018, the Presidential Plane of Mexico named TP-01 (registered as XC-MEX) of the Mexican Air Force arrived here to be sold off to its new owner by the order of New President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador.[5]
On March 27, 2019, the first of two
In 2019 Southwest Airlines used the airport to store its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX after the airplane was grounded by the FAA.[7][8]
On 14 February 2020, the
In response to the sharp drop in air travel during the
Aircraft storage
Aircraft maintenance and storage company ComAv Technical Services operates a 240-acre (97 ha) open storage facility at SCLA with a capacity of over 500 aircraft, plus hangars that can be used to maintain several more. The dry desert environment at SCLA is conducive to long-term preservation of aircraft.[12]
Automobile storage
In the aftermath of the 2015 emissions scandal, German automaker Volkswagen leased 134 acres (54 ha) of land at the SCLA to store 21,000 cars it had reacquired from customers.[15]
Accidents and incidents
- 7 June 2001: The copilot of a tip tank on the runway, the aircraft landed hard, collapsing the main landing gear and sliding off the runway. The aircraft was substantially damaged but its three occupants were not injured. The accident was attributed to the copilot's inadvertent loss of control and the pilot in command's failure to adequately supervise the copilot.[16]
In popular culture
- Movies (since 1996)[17]
- Twister (sound recording 1996)
- Contact (1997)
- Face/Off (1997)
- Breakdown (1997)
- Pushing Tin (1999)
- The Base(1999 Video)
- Space Cowboys (2000)
- Ocean's Eleven (2001)
- The Good Girl (2002)
- The Sum of All Fears (2002)
- The Hulk (2003)
- Jarhead (2005)
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2005)
- Rebooting Civilization (2016)
- Rampage (2018)
- Tenet (2020)
See also
References
- ^ Pae, P. (15 March 2009). "As travel declines, aircraft 'boneyard' in Victorville fills up". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ "Southern California Logistics Airport". Global Access Victorville Masterplan. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Southern California Logistics Airport (SCLA)". Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Freeze, Christopher. "Southern California Logistics Airport runway shortened". LinkedIn. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ Pascus, Brian; Zhang, Benjamin (December 3, 2018). "Take a look inside the $218 million Boeing Dreamliner private jet the new president of Mexico is selling because it's 'too lavish'". Business Insider. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "The first of two 747-8is marked to become the next Air Force One aircraft has been flown to Kelly Field Annex in San Antonio to begin conversion". 27 March 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ ""Airplane boneyards" are more than places where planes go to die". www.marketplace.org. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ^ "Southwest Moves 737 MAX Aircraft To Victorville For Storage". CBS Los Angeles. 25 March 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ Tulis, David. "CFI sets longest-distance aircraft 'wheelie'". AOPA. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
- ^ Martinez, Arlene. "Pilot wheelies his way into the Guinness Book of World Records". USA Today. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
- ^ Estacio, Martin (24 March 2020). "Coronavirus: As air travel drops, demand for plane storage jumps at Southern California Logistics Airport". Daily Press. Victorville, California. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ a b Martín, Hugo (2020-03-24). "Here is where airlines are parking all those grounded planes as travel dries up". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Arnold, Kyle (30 March 2020). "Southwest Airlines CEO: We're parking more planes and cutting spending as COVID-19 challenge grows". The Dallas Morning News. Dallas, Texas. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ Platt, Craig (2020-09-30). "Last Qantas A380 makes final flight ahead of desert storage". Traveller. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- ^ "Why 300,000 Volkswagens Are Being Stored In These Massive Auto Boneyards". NPR. 2018-03-29. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ^ "NTSB Aviation Accident Final Report LAX01TA204". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ "SCLA Filming". Retrieved 22 April 2020.
External links
- Global Access at Southern California Logistics Airport (official site)
- Southern California Aviation Archived 2014-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Southern California Logistics Airport / George Air Force Base (GlobalSecurity.org)
- Airliners.net
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective March 21, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for VCV
- AirNav airport information for KVCV
- ASN accident history for VCV
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures