Aviation View Magazine | Volume 1, Issue 4

46 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4 presently, we remain ready to accept airline service.” He continues, “We have a terminal building and all of the passenger handling facilities that go with that, including ramp and parking. We maintain our part 139 airport operating certificate and that means that we have a fire station and ARFF (Airport Rescue Firefighting) equipment and trained personnel. There are two FBOs Goldenwest Jet Center and Oxnard Jet Center. Goldenwest is a full service FBO and also co-manages the fuel farm with the airport while Oxnard Jet Center, together with Aspen Helicopters, provides fuel, charters, mapping, and agricultural spraying with both fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. They are great partners. They can also give you a ride out to our beautiful Channel Islands.” Oxnard Airport also features a remote campus for California Aeronautical University. Based in Bakersfield, CalAero offers everything from flight instruction to graduate programs in transportation management. Camarillo Airport also has a rich history at a large scale. Nafie explains, “Turning to Camarillo, we have double everything that we have at Oxnard but, interestingly, it generates five times the economic benefits even though the raw operations and number of airplanes is only twice that of Oxnard.” In 1942 the California State Highway Department constructed an auxiliary landing field with a 5,000-foot runway. Then in 1951 as a response to the emerging Cold War, it became