US Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles
District History (1999)
The site, formerly known as Pomona Airport, is located at 2498
South Garey Avenue and a surrounding residential area in Pomona,
California. The site is bound by South Garey Avenue to the west,
Towne Avenue to the east, and County Road to the south. The northern
boundary is approximately halfway between County Road and Olive
Street.
According to a U.S. Army and U.S. Navy
Directory of Airfields, published 1 April 1944, the Army acquired
access to the 20-acre Pomona Airport in 1944 through indeterminate
means. Real estate records and site history records were neither
specific nor complete.
The Army Air Forces used the airfield for unspecified operations.
A Civil Air Patrol Squadron may have undertaken flight training
at the airfield, under Army authority, in conjunction with training
at nearby Brackett Field. No Army improvements are known to have
been completed. Site history records were neither specific nor
complete.
The Army relinquished use of the 20-acre airfield at an unknown
date, during or subsequent to 1944. The records were neither
specific nor complete. The site is currently 'occupied by a motel,
a gasoline station, a vacant lot, a church, and a residential
neighborhood. No Army improvements are currently known to exist
on the property.
Extract, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Directory
of Airfields (January 1945)