The Hangar, officially known as Lancaster Municipal Stadium and formerly known as Clear Channel Stadium, is a stadium in Lancaster, California, United States. Previously a ballpark, the Hanger has been reconfigured into a soccer-specific stadium and has been the home of third-division USL League One club AV Alta FC since their first season in 2025. The Hangar is located near State Route 14 west of downtown Lancaster.

From its opening in 1996 to 2020, the stadium was the home field of the Lancaster JetHawks, a now-defunct minor league baseball team of the Advanced A California League. In 2005, Clear Channel Communications entered into a 10-year, $770,000 naming rights deal with the JetHawks and the City of Lancaster, who divided the revenue between them. The deal was planned to run through the 2014 season, but Clear Channel Stadium signage was removed in 2012. The stadium was then renamed The Hangar, its nickname since the stadium opened in 1996, as well as Lancaster Municipal Stadium. Following the disbandment of the Jethawks, the Lancaster Sound Breakers of the Pecos League played their 2023 season at the Hangar, before folding after their inaugural season.

Features

Because of the area's aerospace legacy, the stadium has a NASA F/A-18 Hornet mounted on display at the front entrance. The $14.5 million facility offers luxury skyboxes, a video message board, and an old-fashioned manual scoreboard. The stadium's seating capacity is listed at 6,860, but can accommodate over 7,000 fans and features slightly over 4,500 permanent full chair stadium seats. Two grass berm general admission areas are available when all seats are sold out.

The renovations include the addition of a 1,000-seat modular grandstand on the east side, and a 500-seat safe-standing supporters' section with a canopy, which is occupied by supporters groups such as "The 661" (a reference to the phone area code of the Lancaster area). Other major renovations have been done to the field dimensions, existing seating, and stadium infrastructure such as LED lighting and a 16-foot wind wall. The west and south grandstands from the existing baseball configuration have been rebuilt to align with the soccer field and improve sight lines for the rest of the existing seating.

References

  • Lancaster Municipal Stadium, City of Lancaster website