The airport covers 544 acres (220 ha) at an elevation of 61 feet (19 m). Bainbridge Island, Washington also hosted a station. The other stations in California were at Point Arguello, Farallon Islands and San Diego. These sites along the coast could track Japanese warships and merchant marine vessels as far away as the Western Pacific. High-frequency direction finding (HFDF) was used for radio intercept. and a naval radio station at Point Saint George. The airfield was used during World War II as Crescent City Outlying Field supporting Naval Air Station Alameda. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (i.e. It has one airline flight per day to and from Oakland under the Essential Air Service program.

Source: Federal Aviation Administration ĭel Norte County Regional Airport ( IATA: CEC, ICAO: KCEC, FAA LID: CEC) (Jack McNamara Field) is a public airport three miles northwest of Crescent City, in Del Norte County, California, United States.

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