In 1944, the 441st Army Air Forces Base Unit was added to train additional pilots for the P-38. During the war, the airfield was used by the 4th Air Force, which stationed the 428th Fighter Squadron with Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in 1943. The Army acquired an additional 163 acres of land to expand the runways and airfield. In 1942, after the United States entered World War II, the government purchased the airport and converted it into the Van Nuys Army Airfield. Who can forget that memorable airport scene at the end in the 1942 film “Casablanca”? The 80 acre airport that was surrounded by trees and farmland, was used for general aviation, and became popular with Hollywood stars as as a filming location. Van Nuys Airport opened on December 17, 1928, the 25th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, as Metropolitan Airport. Van Nuys became the Valley’s satellite Los Angeles municipal civic center with the 1932 Art Deco Valley Municipal Building (Van Nuys City Hall), a visual landmark and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. Van Nuys became the first new stop on the San Fernando Line of the Pacific Electric Railway, which help propel its early land sales and commercial development. It was annexed by Los Angeles on May 22, 1915, after completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, providing it with the water required for future development. The town was founded in 1911 and named for Isaac Newton Van Nuys, a farmer, business visionary and one of its developers. Huntington extended the Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) through the Valley to Owensmouth (now Canoga Park), the Suburban Home Company developed plans for roads and the towns of Van Nuys, Reseda (Marian) and Canoga Park (Owensmouth). We will fast forward to the early part of the 20th Century when in 1909, the Suburban Homes Company purchased 48,000 acres of the Farming and Milling Company for $2.5 million. The early history of this area with its Native American Indians being colonized by the Spanish is similar to that of other parts of the whole San Fernando Valley. Home to Van Nuys Airport and the Valley Municipal Building, it is the most populous community in the Valley. We will extend city main lines and construct or re-modify manholes per Plan specifications.Īll of us at Blu Jay Plumbing and Rooter are proud and honored to serve historic Van Nuys, a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley.
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