The buzz of light prop planes and the occasional roar of private jets at the Camarillo Airport long ago replaced the supersonic rip of F-101 Voodoo Interceptors and the drone of F-89 Scorpions, but the remnants of the old Oxnard Air Force Base remain.

A recently released Army Corps of Engineers inspection of the old base, now the Camarillo Airport, sifted through a vestige of the military presence here that started during the second World War and ended in the waning days of Vietnam.

The report, a site inspection meant to determine if any unexploded ordnance remained or whether the old firing ranges and test bomb sites were contaminated, found no cause for concern. Similar surveys have been done at old military bases throughout the country.

The site surveys are meant to determine where the Department of Defense needs to step in to clean up. A recent survey done in Rancho Santa Margarita found about half a dozen small, unexploded cartridges used in practice bombing runs 60 years ago. The old munitions were destroyed by the military. Other surveys have found contamination in the soil and resulted in cleanup efforts.

This one looked at four areas on the airport property; three were used as rifle and handgun firing ranges and the fourth was used for burning or blowing up old rocket warheads, signal flares, rocket igniters, aircraft cartridges and even dynamite, according to a draft of the report released at the end of April.

Although bits of metal were found and even grenade pins, no contamination was found on the property, according to the report.

Charlie Valentine, a former Air Force pilot stationed at the base from 1963 to 1965, said he remembers the hubbub on the base back then.

Camarillo High School's mascot, the Scorpion, was named after the Northrop F-90 Scorpions stationed at the old air base. Those were some of the Air Force's earliest jets, and they were equipped with tactical nuclear missiles.

Valentine doesn't remember much of any weapons testing going on while he was stationed at the base.

"Well, I remember the firing range, but that was strictly small-bore handguns," said Valentine, who retired as a major and moved back to Camarillo in 1971.

He now works at the World War II Aviation Museum at the airport.

For more information on the site inspection go on the Web to http://www.spl.usace.army.mil.