<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Fresno Yosemite Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Military beginnings: </strong>The Fresno Yosemite international airport opened as a military airfield in June 1942, just six months after Japan&rsquo;s attack on pearl harbor, leading the united states to enter world war ii. The new airfield was named hammer field and was used by the united states army air forces as a training facility for the new pilots of the fourth air force. It had a single northwest/southeast oriented runway with a length of 7,200 feet (now runway 11l/29r). Night fighter training, using Northrop p-61s, was moved to hammer field in January 1944, initially with the 481st night fighter operational training group, replaced by the 319th wing in May 1944.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Training for the bell p-59 air comet was added to the 319th mission in 1944, as well, confirmed col. Ralph h. Suavely, commanding officer of the 319th wing at the time, civil and commercial aviation used chandler field that had opened in November 1929. chandler is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of downtown Fresno, on a small site. Less than a decade after it opened, it was clear that the small runway at chandler would not be able to accommodate coming larger airliners.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4">Ground Transportation Fresno Yosemite International Airport</h2>
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<li class="blog-li"><strong>Highways:</strong> The airport is located about one mile (1.6 km) from California state route 180, with vehicles using peach avenue to connect between the airport and the highway. California state route 180 connects to all of the other freeways in the Fresno area: California state route 41, California state route 99, and California state route 168. Yosemite national park can be accessed by California state route 41 and Kings canyon national park and sequoia national park can be accessed by California state route 180.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Parking:</strong> The city of Fresno offers paid on-site parking in a 900 space parking garage south of the airport terminal, a large lot south of the terminal, and several smaller lots east of the terminal. A separate cell phone waiting lot located on the southeast corner of the airport property has stalls, designated for drivers waiting for arriving passengers.</li>
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