jpetekYXMD80 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 4258 posts, RR: 29 Reply 1, posted (1 year 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1388 times:
n5014k From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 111 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1309 times:
Right. Airport in the Sky is the only airport. This is CIB. The only Sky Harbor I know is PHX.
Avalon and Two Harbors are heliports, at least they were when I used to fly there in the late 70's on Sikorskys. The seaplane bases are gone if I recall rightly.
Quoting jpetekYXMD80 (Reply 1): Right. Airport in the Sky is the only airport. This is CIB. The only Sky Harbor I know is PHX.
Thanks for the info.....you do realize I didnt just pull the other codes out of thin air, I hope. Plus, I am referring to 1987 and looking at a 1987 OAG that lists FOUR different airport codes under Catalina Island.
jpetekYXMD80 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 4258 posts, RR: 29 Reply 4, posted (1 year 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1259 times:
Yeah, I guess CIB and AVX are different codes for the same airport and the others must be/been heliports or something? Not sure, but I think the current airport is the only landing strip theres been on the island, challenging place to build an airport.
Tomassjc From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 667 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (1 year 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1189 times:
Quoting PI767 (Thread starter): AVX - Avalon Bay
SXB - Avalo VOR/WP
CIB - Sky Harbor
THW - Two Harbors
AVX is where the seaplane base was (is?) at Avalon. Gruman Goose (Catalina Airlines, Catalina Seaplanes and later Golden West) service from LGB and San Pedro lasted until the late 70s I believe.
THW is also a seaplane base, but at the "Isthmus" towards the northwest end of the island. Hence the name "Two Harbors" Catalina Airlines also flew the Goose there too from Long Beach back in the day.
CIB is "Airport in the Sky" On top of the island about a 20 minute ride from Avalon. Long before TWE, in the early 70s, Golden West flew their Twin Otters there from LAX, LGB and SNA.
SXB is the VOR fix used for ATC.
Man, you're bringing back memories!
Tom SJC
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward -Leonardo DaVinci
USXguy From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 845 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (1 year 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1049 times:
www.airnav.com is a great resource to figure out what airport is what
FX1816 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 1400 posts, RR: 5 Reply 7, posted (1 year 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 978 times:
Quoting Tomassjc (Reply 5): AVX is where the seaplane base was (is?) at Avalon. Gruman Goose (Catalina Airlines, Catalina Seaplanes and later Golden West) service from LGB and San Pedro lasted until the late 70s I believe.
AVX is the airport on the hill, whenever we get guys looking for flight following that is where they are going.
Quoting Tomassjc (Reply 5): SXB is the VOR fix used for ATC.
Tomassjc From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 667 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (1 year 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 820 times:
Quoting FX1816 (Reply 7): AVX is the airport on the hill, whenever we get guys looking for flight following that is where they are going.
Hmmm.I wonder what 3 letter code was used for the seaplane base?
Quoting FX1816 (Reply 7): AVX is the airport on the hill, whenever we get guys looking for flight following that is where they are going
I have a GW bag tag in my collection that says CIB.. so I thought such.
Quoting USXguy (Reply 6): Actually it's SXC for Santa Catalina VOR.
Yes...typo.
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