On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:34:40 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote in
et::

Was the tower built too close to the airport, or was the airport built too
close to the tower?


The KFI transmitter tower was erected in Spring 1947 and the Fullerton
airport substantially earlier, officially 1927:

The story of the installation of the tower is he
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/sta...20C.%20ANTHONY

http://www.ci.fullerton.ca.us/city_m...s/airport.html
The last strictly general aviation airfield still operating in Orange
County, Fullerton Municipal Airport can trace its origins back as
early as 1913 when barnstormers and crop dusters used the then vacant
site as a makeshift landing strip. The airport’s “official” birthday
is 1927: That’s the year the Fullerton City Council signed Ordinance
514, which formally established the airport.


http://www.ci.fullerton.ca.us/city_m...es/airday.html
The airport was the brainchild of brothers William and Robert Dowling,
who enlisted the aid of H. A. Krause and the Fullerton Chamber of
Commerce in petitioning the council for permission to turn the then
vacant sewer farm into a landing field. The council leased the land to
the chamber for five years, at a fee of $1 per year, and the chamber,
in turn, subleased operations to William Dowling and friend Willard
Morris of Yorba Linda.


The complete Fullerton Airport history is he
http://www.calpilots.org/www.calpilo...eatureApt.html