Rio Vista Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Summary | |||||||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | City of Rio Vista | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Rio Vista, California | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 43 ft / 13 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°10′15.96″N121°41′17.17″W / 38.1711000°N 121.6881028°W | ||||||||||||||
Interactive map of Rio Vista Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Rio Vista Airport was a public airport located northeast of Rio Vista, serving Solano County, California, USA. This general aviation airport had two runways.
The airport was closed in 1995 due to flooding and beginning in 1993 operations were moved to the new airport, the Rio Vista Municipal Airport. [1]
In March 1982 a man named Bob Reichert opened a restaurant on the airfield named Flying Down to Rio (after a film of the same name). A Douglas DC-4 (tail number "D54DO", a converted Skymaster C-54) was purchased from a Brazilian Airline and taken to Rio Vista by barge from Oakland [2] . The bar and bistro changed ownership several times [2] [3] [4] and closed sometime after March of 1985 [5] . The DC-4 air frame was dismantled and sent to the Travis AFB Museum after the restaurant closed [6] .