John Wayne Airport (SNA) is celebrating a century of flight in Orange County, California with an exhibition and a history timeline. The airport traces its history back to 1923, when aviation pioneer Eddie Martin founded a flying school and Martin Aviation, one of the nation’s oldest aviation firms. To celebrate the one-century mark, the John […]
In the 1950s, when ‘hot rods’ were all the rage in Southern California, and John Wayne Airport (SNA) was officially called the Orange County Airport, sanctioned drag racing took place on one of the airport runways. According to the Lyon Air Museum, an aviation and automobile museum on the west side of the airport, in […]
John Wayne Airport (SNA) is celebrating a century of flight in Orange County, California with an exhibition and a history timeline. The airport traces its history back to 1923, when aviation pioneer Eddie Martin founded a flying school and Martin Aviation, one of the nation’s oldest aviation firms. To celebrate the one-century mark, the John […]
In the 1950s, when ‘hot rods’ were all the rage in Southern California, and John Wayne Airport (SNA) was officially called the Orange County Airport, sanctioned drag racing took place on one of the airport runways. According to the Lyon Air Museum, an aviation and automobile museum on the west side of the airport, in […]