Many people have flown in and out of the Palm Springs airport on the commercial flights. However, at the growing East end of the valley there is a whole new aviation world taking shape.
In Thermal, about 35 miles from Palm Springs, the small airport that served the military in World War II was renamed the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in 2004. She was the first female pilot to break the sound barrier and actually lived in the area until she died in 1980.
Expansion and growth at the airport has been climbing steadily. Due in no small part to the large number of homes in the area. With builders steadily filling in the gaps between La Quinta, Indio and the edges of the Salton Sea it was only natural that this once rural and remote airport would spring to life.
100+ new hangars have been built and corporate and private jet traffic is on the upswing. The 2003 extension of the runway allows for jets as large as a 767 to use the facility. The city is now working on plans to develop the surrounding industrial land to its best use.
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