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4 unusual facts about John Wayne Airport


Friendship Flight '89

On June 5, 1989, 11-year-old Anthony Aliengena followed by two chase planes carrying his family, journalists and his Soviet pen pal, Roman Tcheremnykh, took off John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California in a Cessna 210 Centurion, and had successfully returned home nearly seven weeks and 21,567 miles after.

Garrison Melmoth

The Melmoth was destroyed in the summer of 1982 at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, when the pilot of a Cessna landing with engine problems lost control of the aircraft and it impacted the Melmoth waiting for take-off clearance.

Localizer type directional aid

# KSNA, LDA RWY 19R, John Wayne Airport-Orange County, Santa Ana, CA

Orange County Airport

John Wayne Airport, also known as John Wayne-Orange County Airport, in Orange County, California


Visual flight rules

For example, in the United States, California's Oakland (KOAK), Monterey (KMRY) and Santa Ana (KSNA) airports routinely grant temporary IFR clearance when a low coastal overcast forces instrument approaches, while the rest of the state is still under visual flight rules.


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