Widely recognized aviation leader, Clifton A. Moore, who helped transform a two-runway regional airport into Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), died on April 2 at age 80. Moore co-wrote the definitive book on airport management ``Airport Operations'' (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1983) with Norman J. Ashford and Martin Stanton.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., Moore was hired as a building superintendent at LAX in 1959. Named deputy general manager of the Department of Airports in 1966, Moore advanced to executive director in 1968, in charge of not only the day-to-day operations of LAX but those of the three other airports in the department's system, Van Nuys, Ontario International and Palmdale Regional. He retired from his post in 1993.