South Valley Regional Airport (FAA LID: U42) is a public airport located in West Jordan, seven miles (11 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
It is the primary general aviation airport in the area and is a Utah Army National Guard training base with Apache and Blackhawk helicopters.
The airport was to be used chiefly for private fliers, to free the Salt Lake port for army and commercial transport use.
Chapman to construct an 80 foot x 100 foot hangar, make other improvements, and for operation of a commercial flying business, paying the city a $50 per year ground lease for five years and 2 cents per gallon for all gasoline he sold.
[6] Around Thanksgiving 1944, a Kearns Flying Club began using privately owned single-engine Taylorcrafts, Porterfields, and a Fairchild.