El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, Irvine, California, USA
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Marine Corps Air Station El Toro was a United States Marine Corps Air Station located near Irvine, California at 33.67° N 117.73° W. Its ICAO airport code is KNZJ.
Before it was decommissioned in 1999, it was the home of Marine Corps aviation on the West Coast. Designated as a Master Jet Station, its four runways (two of 8000 feet and two of 10,000 feet) could handle the largest aircraft in the U.S. military inventory. All U.S. Presidents in the post-WWII era have landed in Air Force One at this airfield.
El Toro was twice the final stop for former President Richard Nixon, first when he landed there upon resigning the White House in 1974, and again after his death in 1994 when his body was flown to California for burial.
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