Mojave Airport Honors Rutan Name
The directors of California’s Mojave Air and Space Port (KMHV) have agreed to rename the facility Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field.
California's Mojave Air and Space Port is celebrating it's nearly half century association with the famed Rutan brothers by adding their name to that of the airport, which will now be known as Mojave Air & Space Port at Rutan Field. (Photo: Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field)
California's Mojave Air and Space Port is celebrating it's nearly half century association with the famed Rutan brothers by adding their name to that of the airport, which will now be known as Mojave Air & Space Port at Rutan Field. (Photo: Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field)

In honor of the contributions to aerospace by Burt and Dick Rutan, the directors of California’s Mojave Air and Space Port (KMHV) have agreed to rename the facility Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field. Burt Rutan established Rutan Aircraft factory at KMHV in the mid-1970s, when it was just a small general aviation airport. They started Scaled Composites there almost a decade later, helping propel it into a noted center of aerospace innovation.