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Redding Municipal Airport (KRDD), now also known as Redding Regional Airport, lies south-east of Redding in Shasta County, California, and serves as the city's combined general-aviation and scheduled-airline field. Operated by the City of Redding, it traces its origins to a Second World War advanced flight-training base and today offers two long, lit hard-surfaced runways, one with an ILS, making it a straightforward and well-equipped destination for simulator pilots flying in Northern California.
Redding Municipal Airport, city-operated and situated in Shasta County, California, combines general aviation activity with scheduled airline service to regional hubs. It began life as a Second World War Army Air Field before being handed back to civil control, and its long paved runways and ILS approach make it a useful and interesting stop for VFR and instrument training flights alike in the northern Sacramento Valley.
The airport lies about 6 miles (5.2 nm) south-east of the city of Redding in Shasta County, California, in the northern Sacramento Valley. It is one of two airfields serving Redding, the other being the smaller Benton Airpark closer to the city centre.
Redding Municipal has two paved runways, both asphalt and lit. Runway 16/34 is the longer at 7,004 feet, with an ILS serving runway 34. Runway 12/30 is 5,063 feet long. Field elevation is 495 feet.
Redding traffic is worked on a common tower/CTAF frequency of 119.8 MHz, with ground control on 121.7 MHz. ATIS is broadcast on 124.1 MHz, and UNICOM is available on 122.95 MHz. Oakland Center provides overlying en-route control on 132.2 MHz, and a radio outlet for Rancho VOR-related communications operates on 108.4 MHz. The field is equipped with an ILS to runway 34.
The site began as a Works Progress Administration project known as Stillwater Airfield before the United States Army Corps of Engineers acquired the land for the Army Air Forces and built Redding Army Airfield, completed in 1942. It initially served as a sub-base of Chico Army Air Field under IV Fighter Command at Hamilton Army Air Field, with the mission of advanced flight training for airmen destined for the Pacific, China, Mediterranean and European theatres; the 399th Fighter Squadron of the 369th Fighter Group flew P-39 Airacobras from the field in this role. On 1 November 1944 control passed to the Sacramento Area Command of the Air Technical Service Command, and the base was redesignated the 4191st Army Air Force Base Unit, its role shifting to refuelling and maintenance for transient aircraft under the Air Transport Command. The military declared the airfield excess on 19 December 1945, transferred it to the City of Redding on 18 November 1946, and completed the handover in 1949, ending military ownership. In the postwar decades the airport saw a long succession of scheduled carriers, beginning with Southwest Airways' Douglas DC-3 services in the late 1940s on a routing linking San Francisco, Sacramento, Chico and Redding through to Medford, followed by Pacific Air Lines' Fairchild F-27 turboprops from 1959. Pacific Air Lines' merger with Bonanza and West Coast Airlines created Air West, later Hughes Airwest, which by 1970 was flying F-27s and Douglas DC-9s from Redding to San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and other West Coast points. Subsequent operators included Frontier Airlines' Boeing 737s to Denver via Sacramento, United Airlines 737 service to San Francisco from 1983, Pacific Express BAC One-Elevens, and American Eagle Metroliner flights operated by Wings West. By the mid-1990s, Horizon Air, Reno Air Express and United Express (operated by WestAir) were all serving the field, followed by Sierra Expressway's Jetstream 31 service to Oakland in 1996. On 17 July 2008 President George W. Bush landed at Redding aboard Air Force One during a visit.
Redding today handles both general aviation traffic and scheduled airline operations. United Express operates regional jet service to Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco, while Alaska Airlines flies to Seattle. The airport remains under the ownership and operation of the City of Redding.