Mesa Del Rey Airport (IATA: KIC, ICAO: KKIC, FAA LID: KIC) is a public airport a mile northeast of King City, in Monterey County, California, United States.
It was used for most of World War II by the United States Army Air Forces as a primary (level 1) contract pilot training airfield.
Known sub-bases and auxiliaries were (no trace of these fields remain today): The construction of the flying school began in December 1940.
The buildings, the barracks, administration, PX, mess hall, schoolrooms, aircraft hangars, runways, and aprons were built from scratch and were completed by May 1941.
[1] In the year ending February 25, 2009, the airport had 7,862 general aviation aircraft operations, average 21 per day.