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The airport has been United Airport (1930-1934), Union Air Terminal (1934-1940), Lockheed Air Terminal (1940-1967), Hollywood-Burbank Airport (1967-1978), Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (1978-2003) and most recently Bob Hope Airport (2003-present). Photograph caption dated July 16, 1959 reads "Performance of new Grumman Gulfstream turboprop business transport, to be sold on West Coast by Pacific Airmotive Corporation of Burbank, is discussed at Lockheed Air Terminal during demonstrations this week. From left are Jack Schnabel and J. R. Jefferies, Grumman sales pilots; Jim Bylin, Valley Times reporter, and John Myers, Pacific Airmotive president. New plane travels at 356 miles-per-hour at 25,000 feet."
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Bylin, Jim Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation Valley Times (Firm)--Employees Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Air pilots--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Newspaper employees--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Grumman airplanes Turboprop transports Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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