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In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States Army had an airport at the
Camp Young Desert Training Center in present-day
Palm Desert, California and a secondary airfield in
Indio, California. They were decommissioned after the war and privatized in the late 1940s. The Indio Airport back in the 1950's was a popular landing site for Hollywood celebrities, CEOs or millionaires, and presidents in their planes. In the 1960's, half of the Indio airport closed to become a housing tract, then the other part was abandoned in the 1970's. The airport business relocated to
Bermuda Dunes, California (see the
Bermuda Dunes Airport) to the west to serve their country club opened in 1961. By then, the air landing pad in former Camp Young became the Desert Aire Country Club, a golf-hotel and private airplane community in
Rancho Mirage, California but the pad closed in 1976 and reopened as the
Marriott Rancho Las Palmas Golf Resort in 1978. +
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