Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport is a public airport in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, on Lehigh Street two miles southwest of Allentown, Pennsylvania. It is owned by the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority. Also known as Queen City Airport, it is home to Civil Air Patrol Squadron 805 and Lehigh Valley Aviation Services, a fixed-base operator (FBO). Queen City Airport is also home to Vertivue Air Charters, a private airplane and helicopter charter service, and FlyGateway Aviation Institute (formerly Gateway Aviation), a multi-location flight school known for their Liberty University affiliation and FlyGateway's exclusive FastTrack Career Pilot Programs. On 31 July 2008, the FAA airport identifier briefly changed from 1N9 to JVU. After seeking approval for an identifier associated with the area, the FAA approved the change to XLL (Little Lehigh Executive, after the local Little Lehigh Creek) effective November 20, 2008. Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport has no IATA code. History World War II In mid-December 1942, it was announced that Allentown was the site of a new aircraft production plant. Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft announced that Consolidated Vultee (later known as Convair) would lease Mack Trucks' Plant 5C for production of the Consolidated Vultee TBY-2 Sea Wolf torpedo bomber for the United States Navy. In addition to 5C, Consolidated Vultee would build an office building, a hangar, an airport and a highway linking 5C (now Vultee Street) with the new airport complex. Mack officials were initially reluctant to give up Plant 5C because they considered it essential for wartime truck production; however, the War Production Board and the Navy overruled them. Convair Field, as the airfield was originally named, was dedicated on 10 October 1943. When the plant reached full production, it employed several thousand people, over half women. Consolidated Vultee became Allentown's second largest industry, handling over $100,000,000 in war contracts. Along with the airfield and manufacturing facilities, a new neighborhood of homes was built for the aircraft workers and their families. In December 1943, the National Housing Center approved the construction of 250 units for Vultee workers on a tract bounded by Twelfth, Fourteenth, Harrison and Wyoming streets by the Allentown Housing Authority. This neighborhood, containing streets named "Liberator Avenue", "Catalina Avenue", and "Vultee Street", still exists. By 1943, the facility was producing components for the BT-13 Valiant trainer and B-24 Liberator bomber. In September 1943,