San Diego International Airport, Bayshore Bikeway, San Diego, San Diego County, California, 92147, United StatesConvair
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This Day in Aviation[1] (quoting a 1959 UPI report), Airways and Wikipedia[2] all give 27 January 1959; This Day in Aviation places it at Lindbergh Field, San Diego.The first Convair 880, a four-jet airliner built with Howard Hughes and TWA, took off from Lindbergh Field in San Diego on 27 January 1959 on a flight scheduled for about two hours.
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