Today, Westwood has no airport. It did, however, at one time had two different airports. The first one which really consisted of a crude landing strip. By the late 1910s, the first landing field was located about a mile south of the Goodrich Ranch, or the current bridge that crosses Goodrich Creek. Interest in flying slowly gained momentum.  In June 1928 the Westwood Auto Club spent $100 to clear the landing field of brush and fill in holes to make two 2,200 foot runways. Thus, the Westwood Airport was created—a first in Lassen County. By the late 1930s the landing field slowly declined in use, since the Red River Lumber Company was in a transitory period. In 1944, Red River sold its Westwood operation, thus more changes on the horizon.  In 1946, Lassen County bought forty-two acres at $2.50 acre from Red River to provide a landing strip to the west of Westwood. It was subsequently closed. In July 1982, the Lassen County Board of Supervisors discussed re-opening the airstrip, but it never got off the ground.

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