The Federal Aviation Administration has announced 238 FAA Control Towers will be closed because of sequestration. Criteria are airports with less than 150,000 takeoffs and landings per year. Date of closure will be 7 April 2013, according to last report. The FAA also announced 72 airport towers will be understaffed while remaining open. Of air traffic control towers managed by the Federal Contract Tower Program, 75% will be closed.
The California towers to be closed are:
Brackett
Brown Field
Camarillo
Castle
Concord
El Monte
Fullerton
Hawthorne
Lancaster
Livermore
Napa
Oxnard
Palmdale
Riverside
Ramona
Sacramento Executive-KSAC
Santa Monica (The hostile city council will go nuts over this)
Salinas Municipal
San Carlos
Sonoma County
Stockton (The city went into bankruptcy last week)
Victorville
California airports which will be understaffed:
Edwards AFB
Fresno Tower
Ontario Tower High Desert TRACON
Sacramento Tower-KSMF or KMCC? need clarification here.
Unannounced, but I'll bet Air Force One will not be affected in any way by sequestration.