Mesa Del Rey Airport is a city owned, public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district of King City, in Monterey County, California, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.HistoryOpened in April 1940 as Palo Alto Airport or King City Airport. Originally had 4,570' NW/SE hard surfaced runway. It was used for most of World War II by the United States Army Air Forces as a primary (level 1) contract pilot training airfield. It also had four local auxiliary airfields for emergency and overflow landings. Pilot training contractor was Palo Alto Airport, Inc. Flying training was performed with Fairchild PT-19s as the primary trainer. It also had several PT-17 Stearmans as well. Known sub-bases and auxiliaries were: Benard Auxiliary Field Hanson Auxiliary Field Sorenson Auxiliary Field Trescony Auxiliary Field The construction of the flying school began December 1940. The buildings, the barracks, administration, PX, mess hall, the schoolrooms, and the aircraft hangars as well as the runways and aprons, were built from scratch and were completed by May 1941. The first set of cadets arrived on March 15, and the first class of 50 started on March 21,1941. Pilot training had ended October 16, 1944. Military control of the airport was transferred to the United States Navy in April 1945. It was known as King City Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS). The Navy declared airport surplus on 30 September 1945. Eventually it was discharged to the War Assets Administration (WAA) and became a civil airport.
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