Editing San Jose International Airport (section)

=== Beginnings and expansion ===
[[File:San Jose Must Have An Airport - 1929.jpeg|thumb|left|San Jose Must Have An Airport – 1929]]

In 1939, [[Ernie Renzel]], a wholesale grocer and future mayor of San Jose, led a group that negotiated an option to buy {{convert|483|acre}} of the Stockton Ranch from the Crocker family, to be the site of San Jose's airport. Renzel led the effort to pass a bond measure to pay for the land in 1940. In 1945, test pilot James M. Nissen and two partners leased about {{convert|16|acre|ha}} of this land to build a runway, hangar and office building for a flight school. When the city of San Jose decided to develop a municipal airport, Nissen sold his share of the aviation business and became San Jose's first airport manager. Renzel and Nissen were instrumental in the development of San Jose Municipal Airport over the next few decades, culminating with the 1965 opening of what later became Terminal C.<ref>[http://www.sanjoseculture.org/pub_art/documents/SJA-MasterPlan.pdf Proposed Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport Public Art Master Plan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050130132305/http://www.sanjoseculture.org/pub_art/documents/SJA-MasterPlan.pdf |date=January 30, 2005 }}, Rome Group and City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, November 16, 2004.</ref><ref>[http://www.sjc.org/AirportReport/Jan04/AR_content.html Airport Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040208033304/http://www.sjc.org/AirportReport/Jan04/AR_content.html |date=February 8, 2004 }}, Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, 2(8), January 2004</ref>

San Jose's first airline flights were [[Pacific Air Lines|Southwest Airways]] [[Douglas DC-3]]s on the multistop run between San Francisco and Los Angeles, starting in 1948. Southwest changed its name to [[Pacific Air Lines]] and was the only airline at the airport until 1966, when [[Pacific Southwest Airlines]] (PSA) started flying [[Lockheed L-188 Electra]]s nonstop from LAX and [[Boeing 727-100]]s later that year. SJC's first airline jets were Pacific Air Lines Boeing 727-100 nonstops to LAX earlier in 1966; Pacific 727s flew nonstop to Las Vegas in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pacificairlinesportfolio.com|title=Pacific Air Lines Portfolio|last=www.pacificairlinesportfolio.com|website=www.pacificairlinesportfolio.com|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401043227/http://www.pacificairlinesportfolio.com/|archive-date=April 1, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>  Pacific also flew [[Fairchild F-27]]s to SJC, and merged with [[Bonanza Air Lines]] and [[West Coast Airlines]] to form Air West which was renamed [[Hughes Airwest]], continuing at SJC with [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30]]s before it merged into [[Republic Airlines (1979–1986)]].  In 1968 United Airlines arrived, with [[Boeing 727]] nonstops from Denver, Chicago and LAX, and [[Douglas DC-8]] nonstops from New York and Baltimore.

The runway which became 12R/30L was {{convert|4500|ft|m}} until about 1962— Brokaw Rd was the northwest boundary of the airport. In 1964 it was {{convert|6312|ft|m}}, in 1965 it was {{convert|7787|ft|m}}, and a few years later it reached {{convert|8900|ft|m}}, where it stayed until around 1991.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} The two runways are now both {{convert|11000|ft}} in length.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aopa.org/destinations/airports/KSJC/details|access-date=September 13, 2021|title=(KSJC) Norman Y Mineta San Jose International Airport}} Airline Owners and Pilots Association</ref>

In the early 1980s, the airport was one of the first in the country to participate in the [[noise regulation]] program enacted by the U.S. Congress for delineation of airport noise [[contour line|contours]] and developing a pilot study of [[noise mitigation|residential sound insulation]]. This program showed that homes near the airport could be retrofitted cost-effectively to reduce indoor aircraft noise substantially.<ref>C. Michael Hogan and Ballard George, ''Design of Acoustical Insulation for Existing Residences in the Vicinity of San Jose Municipal Airport'', Issues in Transportation-Related Environmental Quality, [[Transportation Research Board]], [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]], Transportation Research Record 1033, Washington, D.C. (1985)</ref>

[[File:SJC Nissen terminal complex.jpg|thumb|The James M. Nissen Terminal Complex, spanning the space between terminals A and B]]