{"id":4095,"date":"2015-09-20T22:57:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:04:40","slug":"kvny-van-nuys-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/private-airports\/kvny-van-nuys-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"KVNY &#8211; Van Nuys Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27923\" style=\"width:411px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image.png 800w, http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Dec. 17, 1928, the 25th anniversary of the Wright Brothers\u2019 first flight in North Carolina, VNY was born as <strong>Metropolitan Airport<\/strong> through the establishment of a corporation by a small group of citizens. <br>Located about 20 miles north of today\u2019s LAX, amid 80 acres of trees and farmland, Metropolitan Airport. In its early years, VNY served as the base for many record-breaking flights, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A women\u2019s speed record of 196 mph, by Florence \u201cPancho\u201d Barnes, in 1930.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A men\u2019s solo endurance record of 37 hours, by Herbert Fahy, in 1929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A women\u2019s endurance record of 42 hours, by Elinor Smith and Bobbi Trout, in 1929.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-private-airports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27924,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/27924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}