Burbank
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Burbank has its own airport, Bob Hope Airport (BUR). Air taxi and air charter companies such as Great Circle Aviation fly into Bob Hope Airport for small groups and individuals.
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Aviation Museum
A small museum dedicated to aviation history of San Fernando Valley, especially Lockheed, the Skunk Works, Grand Central Terminal (Glendale) and Metropolitan (Van Nuys) airports.
Located at 'Portal of Folded Wings' in Valhalla Memorial Park, just south of the Burbank Airport.. Access from Pierce Brothers gate at 10621 Victory Blvd. (at Cahuenga Blvd.) North Hollywood, CA or from Hollywood Way and Vahalla Drive (Sundays only), behind Frys Electronics in Burbank.
Portal of the Folded Wings-Shrine to Aviation
A beautiful 1924 building listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Huell Howser has done a segment on this site. 15 Pioneers of Aviation are buried here including Charlie Taylor, the man who made the Wright brothers 'glider' into the Wright Flyer. Bobbi Trout is the most recent arrival.
Enter Pierce Bros.-Valhalla Memorial Park, 10621 Victory Blvd. (at Cahuenga Blvd.) North Hollywood, CA 91606 and drive to farthest eastern end of park.
Historical Society
A city museum with a large Lockheed exhibit. Also, Disney, NBC, Warner Brothers Studios and more. A Lockheed F-104 sits on pole next to a Victorian house. This is the only Lockheed product still existant in Burbank. Where is our display SR-71?
Grand Central Terminal
1310 Airway St. in Glendale, CA. West of railroad tracks at Western Ave.
The original terminal building built in 1928 is still here. TWA, Varney, Western, Pickwick and other airlines started here. Lindbergh made the first scheduled west to east flight from here in a Tri-Motor; many other records set from here. Hughes built and flew his H-1 racer here. Slate Dirigible Co. built sheet metal blimps here. It was a P-38 base in WW II. What else could you want? Disney owns what was once the entire airport. Will this rare and historic terminal building, the last of it's kind in the San Fernando Valley, be saved? Are you listening Mr. Eisner?
On the next block south, at 1096 and 1020 Airway, two original hangars remain. Disney uses one and another is a food warehouse. As the paint peels, you can see lettering from the old aviation company logos painted on the sheet metal.
Glendale Library
There is a 'time line' put up by the Walt Disney Co. covering the Grand Central Airport and the Disney Imagineering branch which has worked in the old airport area since the 1960's. It is located on a wall on the second level, in the rear of the library. Go up the back stairs and to the right.
The Glendale Library has a video about the Grand Central Airport called "When Glendale Ruled the Skys", narrated by Fritz Coleman. Watch it and return to the early days of aviation. I really wish we had a video like that for Burbank.
January - March
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