https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/667ca4c4-4a46-4812-9359-7a86fa3431e3 This 1960s color film advocates the importance of how small airports serve the community. It is a Jack Robinette Production. It opens with a Piper Comanche landing and the control tower and controllers shown (:28-:45). Travelers leave their cars in the parking lot, carry suitcases into the terminal, and board a plane (:48-1:14). Airports serve the community other than passengers. A large container of boxes is unloaded from a plane. Baby chicks are unboxed after shipping (1:15-1:50). The control tower has weather instruments on top. Inside the air controllers communicate with pilots by radio or by flashing a signal lamp (the film says they are called baker lights) (2:22-3:08). A Shell fuel truck pulls up to a plane and refuels it (3:10-3:30). A student pilot checks the mechanical parts of a Piper Cherokee (3:32-3:59). A Piper PA-30 (N8771Y) is hand-towed into a hangar for an annual inspection and its engine shown (4:00-4:25). The student pilot and female instructor get in the Cherokee and check the instrument panel (4:26-4:53). Hobbyists fly vintage planes, such as the 1940 Waco UPF-7 (N30141) (4:55-5:07). A family gets out of a Piper with their dog (5:09-5:32). A salesman looks over a map with the female pilot to take short flights to sales calls. Shown behind them is a Champion 7KCAB (N5156X) and a Piper PA-28-140 (N8153N) (5:33-6:10). A helicopter lifts off. Passenger disembark from a LA Airways Sikorsky helicopter (N305V) before it lifts off again (6:12-7:00). This is a Sikorsky S-61L, and it's still in service in Australia according to the Internet. The L.A. Airways fleet served Disneyland from LAX World Airport. Passengers board an Air California 737 and their luggage is loaded. The plane is shown taking off from the control tower’s point of view (7:02-8:18). A Piper PA-28-140 (N5575F) calls the control tower with engine problems and requests permission to land. Emergency fire vehicles are sent in preparation to the runway. A fireman dressed in a flameproof suit sits on top ready to spray the plane, which safely lands (8:19-10:15). Los Angeles Airways (LAA) was a helicopter airline based in Westchester, Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles Airways offered services to area airports, as well as Disneyland[2] from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the heliport at the Newporter Resort, Newport Beach, California, now the Hyatt Regency. LAA had several firsts, including the first regularly scheduled helicopter mail service on October 1, 1947. Service to Ontario and San Bernardino was initiated on December 17, 1953. In April 1957 they scheduled 17 weekday departures from LAX to 11 heliports from North Hollywood to San Bernardino to Santa Ana to Long Beach; they didn't fly to downtown Los Angeles. The OAG doesn't say what helicopter, but the drawing shows an S-55. LAA was the first civil operator of the Sikorsky S-61, introducing it on March 1, 1962, purchased at a price of $650,000 each. Los Angeles Airways ceased operations in 1971 after failure to consummate a contract in which it would have been purchased by Golden West Airlines.Passengers boarded, in thousands, scheduled flights only: 30 in 1957, 39 in 1960, 396 in 1967, and 62 in 1970. Air California, later renamed AirCal, was founded by William E. Myers and Bill Perrera, a partnership of Orange County businessmen. It began as an intrastate airline operating solely within California. Air California was headquartered in Newport Beach, California.The airline's "home" airport was Orange County Airport, now known as John Wayne Airport. Scheduled passenger operations commenced on January 16, 1967. Air California's initial route was a nonstop flight between Orange County Airport (SNA) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO), a previously unserved route. Two Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprops were used to make five daily round-trip flights. Following the federal Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, Air California expanded its service to several destinations in neighboring states. In the 1980s, in addition to its California routes, it was flying to Chicago (ORD), Seattle (SEA), Anchorage (ANC), and Vancouver, B.C. (YVR) as well as to other destinations in the western U.S. The airline was renamed AirCal in 1981, and it was merged into American Airlines in 1987. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? 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