"PJ Hunt" wrote in message
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Wow, I just checked the KFI website and it say's they started in 1922 in
some guys garage with a 50 watt transmitter. Man I knew that KFI had been
around for a long time but I didn't expect it to have been that long.
That's pretty amazing.

The website didn't say when the tower at Fullerton was erected though.

It's an interesting issue. If the tower was there first, why would they
put an airport so close to it?

Now I'm really curious which came first.


I have a San Diego sectional dated August 12, 1943. It depicts radio
station KFI by call letters and frequency at the present-day location of the
tower. The airport is depicted as a marked auxiliary field only by number;
03607.

A 1937 airport directory lists Fullerton as a municipal airport three miles
west of the city. It had two oiled runways at that time; 900' by 150' N/S
and 1,750' by 200'-300' E/W. It also says the entire field was available.