Santa Cruz County Airports- history of past and present
Airports around Santa Cruz and the surrounding areas.
The last local airport standing is Watsonville's airport and it too is under fire with the development surrounding it.Many local airports have fallen prey to financial or city developement plans. Locally the Watsonville Pilots Association is fighting to keep the last one standing. The city of Watsonville is expansion minded and wants to shut down on of the two runways at the Watsonville airport. They are concerned about safety and use, both of which are valid. Recently a judge sided with their position. More is to be discussed in the future.
Santa Cruz County used to have a bunch of airports, but those fell prey to cities plans for growth and the financial rewards that a large piece of land that the communities grew towards. Watsonville pilots and friends of the airport users are fighting the development minded city of Watsonville as they are trying to rezone land off of Buena Vista road for residential development. Some of the others that have fallen to the way side had colorful history's as many of the local communites had an airport at one time. Read about the Watsonville airports' history
This airport host the popular Watsonville Fly-in, which is a popular show or old planes as well as acrobatic planes. Great to take the kids to see.
Find Santa Cruz County's Weather Outlook
Local Airports for smaller aircraft
Watsonville Airport
Santa Clara County airports
Reed-Hillview- San Jose
South County Airport-San Martin
Commercial Airports for Santa Cruz
Monterey Airport
Monterey Airport is about an hour from Santa Cruz. It is a nice smaller airport that has some commercial flights to major local hubs as well as flying to smaller airports in California.
San Jose International Airport ( Mineta)
San Jose airport is about 1 hour from Santa Cruz.
San Francisco Airport
This airport is located in Brisbane, about 20 minutes south of San Francisco. It is about 1-1/2hours from Santa Cruz
Some interesting links of Santa Cruz County and local aviation history
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/santacruz/szusgs.htm
This has some locations of well and little know places in the area, not only plane stuff by GPS coordinates.
Photo of Capitola's old airport
Watsonville Airport history from the library records
Airport History of Santa Cruz County
Looking for homes around Watsonville ?
Watsonville Homes and Properties for Sale
308 Search Results Found. Showing Results 1 - 5.
MLS# 80773183
MLS# 80811095
MLS# 80814606
MLS# 80814723
MLS# 80807665
