As mentioned in our previous article, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (FLAM) was established in 1989 at MCAS El Toro, a Marine Corps Air Station that was constructed during WWII and had, at ...

U.S. Marine Corps jets and helicopters could return to the decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station El Toro following an agreement inked by the Irvine City Council on Tuesday. The Flying ...

Cynthia Castaneda is the public historian and co-curator of the exhibit, Life on Base: MCAS El Toro. She stands by one of the walls of oral histories of those who served at MCAS El Toro on Friday ...

March 17, 1943:Marine Corps Air Station El Toro is commissioned. CLICK HERE to see a photo slide show of El Toro’s early days. June 27, 1993: The federal base closure panel decides to close El ...

Orange County’s proposed airport at El Toro could be operated safely--but it would also create flight delays and inefficiencies across Southern California’s already crowded skies, according to ...

MIRAMAR, Calif. (KGTV) - A plaque honoring Marines killed in a military training crash that happened 50 years ago at MCAS El Toro was unveiled at MCAS Miramar Wednesday. "Knowing answers has ...

A sign paying homage to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Calif., hangs in the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum aboard MCAS Miramar, Calif., Oct. 25, 2013.

The museum closed its doors on March 28, 2021, after the Marine Corps stopped providing funds to pay five employees and cover maintenance and utilities, roughly $460,000 a year.. At the time ...

In November 1994, Orange County voters passed Measure A by a narrow margin, approving conversion of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station to a commercial airport. County government took command of the ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A man united families across the United States after digging into a military training crash that happened 50 years ago at MCAS El Toro. Johnathan Keene often visited his cousin ...

MCAS El Toro has since closed. On the night of May 17, 1976, Harris was having dinner with her husband at a Costa Mesa restaurant when she left alone and never returned, the sheriff's department ...