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Marin County Airport or Gnoss Field , formerly O56, is a public airport two miles northeast of Novato. The airport covers and has one runway and one helipad. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Marin County Airport/Gnoss Field is DVO to the FAA and NOT to the IATA (which assigned DVO to Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City, Philippines). There is a plan to extend the length of Gnoss' runway by 1100', to 4400'. The county is commissioning an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and a joint Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).〔(Scope of Work for a (sic) Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report - Gnoss Field Airport - Proposed Extension of Runway 13/31 )〕 == History == The airport was opened by the Wright family just after World War II to serve the thousands of ex-military pilots expected to be flying after the war. The Wrights original privately owned airport had a dirt runway and was just west of the current airport, in what is now a grassy field. The last vestiges of the Wright airport buildings burned in a grass fire about 2005. In 1968 the County of Marin bought the airport and moved it to its present location. Somehow (stories are numerous) Gnoss's single runway is laid out almost exactly perpendicular to the prevailing offshore west winds. One of the stories for this alignment is that financing from the Marin County government was tight so it was decided to lay out the runway in a similar fashion to the main runway at nearby Hamilton Air Force Base. Gnoss Field celebrated its 50-year anniversary in 2009–2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marin County Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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