U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways in the U.S. Highway System. US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before terminating in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and the Route 66 television series, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. In John Steinbeck's classic American novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the road "Highway 66" symbolized escape and loss.
US 66 served as a primary route for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and the road supported the economies of the communities through which it passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.
US 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime but was officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985 after it had been replaced in its entirety by segments of the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been communally designated a National Scenic Byway by the name "Historic Route 66", returning the name to some maps. Several states have adopted significant bypassed sections of the former US 66 into their state road networks as State Route 66. The corridor is also being redeveloped into U.S. Bicycle Route 66, a part of the United States Bicycle Route System that was developed in the 2010s.
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Date | Departure | Arrival | Pilot | Aircraft | Landing rate | Distance | Flight time | ||
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20JUL25 1811Z | KSBD | KSMO | Bricktop | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -324 ft/m | 98 nm | 00:21 | View | |
20JUL25 0429Z | KABQ | KGUP | DirkaDirka | Beechcraft Duke (BE60) | -86 ft/m | 119 nm | 00:36 | View | |
19JUL25 1626Z | KSBD | KSMO | Arick West | Cirrus Vision SF-50 (SF50) | -263 ft/m | 91 nm | 00:29 | View | |
19JUL25 1036Z | KSBD | KSMO | deej21 | Cirrus Vision SF-50 (SF50) | -18 ft/m | 87 nm | 00:23 | View | |
14JUL25 1141Z | KSBD | KSMO | coolluke1992 | Airbus A321 neo (A21N) | -532 ft/m | 69 nm | 00:18 | View | |
14JUL25 0034Z | KSBD | KSMO | Red | Cessna 400 (COL4) | -184 ft/m | 62 nm | 00:22 | View | |
13JUL25 1823Z | KFLG | KIGM | Justjohn12345 | Cessna 400 (COL4) | -56 ft/m | 117 nm | 00:16 | View | |
13JUL25 0634Z | KIGM | KSBD | Rexius | Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (F22) | -218 ft/m | 180 nm | 00:08 | View | |
13JUL25 0559Z | KSBD | KSMO | KipOnTheGround | Beechcraft 2000 Starship (STAR) | -172 ft/m | 94 nm | 00:24 | View | |
13JUL25 0557Z | KSBD | KSMO | Unknown | Cirrus SR22 Turbo (S22T) | -457 ft/m | 76 nm | 00:27 | View | |
21JUN25 1751Z | KSBD | KSMO | Ryan R. van der Wal | Beechcraft 2000 Starship (STAR) | -125 ft/m | 102 nm | 00:26 | View | |
15JUN25 1546Z | KABQ | KGUP | Delta Tango | Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) | -443 ft/m | 115 nm | 00:30 | View | |
27MAY25 1526Z | KSBD | KSMO | Unknown | Cessna Caravan (C208) | -648 ft/m | 69 nm | 00:28 | View | |
13MAY25 2052Z | KSBD | KSMO | J.A. | Embraer Phenom 100 (E50P) | -349 ft/m | 68 nm | 00:17 | View | |
08APR25 0052Z | KSBD | KSMO | Unknown | Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) | -2 ft/m | 92 nm | 00:29 | View | |
26MAR25 1904Z | KSBD | KSMO | VAF155 Alberto | Cessna 525C Citation CJ4 (C25C) | -191 ft/m | 74 nm | 00:16 | View | |
16FEB25 1820Z | KSBD | KSMO | Marc Dublain | Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SU9) | -302 ft/m | 81 nm | 00:20 | View | |
23JAN25 2322Z | KSBD | KSMO | Alex C | Mooney M-20 (M20P) | -210 ft/m | 62 nm | 00:23 | View | |
17JAN25 0548Z | KSBD | KSMO | Scotty Clifford | Boeing 737-700 (B737) | -128 ft/m | 79 nm | 00:20 | View | |
30DEC24 0038Z | KSBD | KSMO | Athena | BEECH 60 Royal Turbine Duke (B60T) | -107 ft/m | 85 nm | 00:29 | View |