Talk:California World War II Army Airfields

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In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States Army had an airport at the Camp Young Desert Training Center in present-day Palm Desert, California and a secondary airfield in Indio, California. They were decommissioned after the war and privatized in the late 1940s. The Indio Airport back in the 1950's was a popular landing site for Hollywood celebrities, CEOs or millionaires, and presidents in their planes. In the 1960's, half of the Indio airport closed to become a housing tract, then the other part was abandoned in the 1970's. The airport business relocated to Bermuda Dunes, California (see the Bermuda Dunes Airport) to the west to serve their country club opened in 1961. By then, the air landing pad in former Camp Young became the Desert Aire Country Club, a golf-hotel and private airplane community in Rancho Mirage, California but the pad closed in 1976 and reopened as the Marriott Rancho Las Palmas Golf Resort in 1978. + Mike D 26 (talk) 23:14, 17 February 2011 (UTC)