Turlock Municipal Airport is a public

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

located east of

Turlock Turlock is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. Its population was 72,740 at the 2020 United States census, making it the second-largest city in Stanislaus County after Modesto. History Founded on December 22, 1871, by pr ...

, in

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. This

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airport covers and has one

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. It was purposed during World War II to train pilots for air combat.

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During

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, the airport was designated as Ballico Air Force Auxiliary Field, and was an auxiliary training airfield for

Merced Army Airfield Castle Air Force Base (Castle AFB, 1941–1995) is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base in California, northeast of Atwater, northwest of Merced, and about south of Sacramento. The Central Valley base in unincorpora ...

, California.

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