Hemet-Ryan Airport
| Hemet-Ryan Airport Ryan Field |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | County of Riverside | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | County of Riverside | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Hemet, California | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,512 ft / 461 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°44′02″N 117°01′21″W / 33.73389°N 117.02250°WCoordinates: 33°44′02″N 117°01′21″W / 33.73389°N 117.02250°W | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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| Aircraft operations | 75,444 |
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| Based aircraft | 236 |
Hemet-Ryan Airport (IATA: HMT, ICAO: KHMT, FAA LID: HMT) is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Hemet, in Riverside County, California, United States.
Hemet-Ryan is a main Cal Fire Air Attack Base, also used for civilian purposes, Civil Air Patrol meetings, and more. It is also home to a Riverside County Sheriff's Department aviation unit and a Mercy Air Air ambulance. The airport is named after the late Claude T. Ryan.
The airfield was opened in September 1940 by the United States Army Air Corps. It was assigned to the West Coast Training Center (later Western Flying Training Command) as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield. Later it was activated as an Air Corps Training Detachment with Ryan School of Aeronautics conducting primary flight training under control of 5th Flying Training Detachment. Known sub-bases and auxiliaries were:
Flight training was performed with PT-17 Stearmans as the primary trainer, along with Ryan PT-21 Recruits. Over 14,000 army cadets were trained to fly.
The airport was inactivated in December 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program, the airfield was declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers. Later, the airfield was discharged to the War Assets Administration. The facility eventually became a public airport owned and operated by Riverside County.
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