The airport covers 745 acres (301 ha) at an elevation of 222 feet (68 m). By the following year the airline had made 1,200 routine instrument landings at the often fog-shrouded airport. In December 1947 a Southwest Airways Douglas DC-3 made the world's first blind landing by a scheduled commercial airliner using Ground-Controlled Approach (GCA) radar, Instrument Landing System (ILS) and Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO) oil-burners next to the runway. It operated in support of the Naval Air Station Alameda as the Arcata Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) and was headquarters for the Eureka section of naval local defense forces for the 12th Naval District. The airport was built by the United States Navy during World War II to test defogging systems.

The airport is the site of the command center for and primary facilities of the United States Coast Guard Air Station Humboldt Bay, which provides rescue and law enforcement for the region north of the San Francisco Bay Area. The airport is a federally designated port of entry for civil aircraft arriving in the United States. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a Nonhub primary commercial service airport. California Redwood Coast – Humboldt County Airport ( IATA: ACV, ICAO: KACV, FAA LID: ACV), also known as Arcata–Eureka Airport and Arcata Airport, is in Humboldt County, California, United States, 8 miles (13 km) north of Arcata and 15 miles (24 km) north of Eureka, in McKinleyville.

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