Yucca Airstrip (IATA: UCC, ICAO: KUCC, FAA LID: NV11) is a private-use airport located 17 miles (27 km) north of the central business district of Mercury...
3 KB (253 words) - 07:21, 2 November 2024
south end of Yucca Flat is Yucca Lake, also called Yucca Dry Lake. The dry, alkaline lake bed holds a restricted runway (Yucca Airstrip) which was built...
21 KB (2,515 words) - 18:07, 28 March 2024
dedicated medical facility outside of a traditional emergency room. Yucca Airstrip (IATA: UCC, ICAO: KUCC) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
5 KB (653 words) - 22:45, 27 October 2024
was FAA: DRA) Mercury L23 Pahute Mesa Airstrip (owned by U.S. Dept of Energy) Mercury NV11 UCC Yucca Airstrip (owned by U.S. Dept of Energy) Tonopah...
22 KB (606 words) - 21:12, 15 October 2024
Australia -UC- UCB Ulanqab Airport Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China UCC KUCC Yucca Airstrip (FAA: NV11) Mercury, Nevada, United States UCE Eunice Airport (FAA:...
24 KB (133 words) - 15:50, 8 November 2024
Tonopah Test Range (redirect from Mellan Airstrip)
Army Air Field (now serving as Tonopah's municipal airport). Only Mellan Airstrip, 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Tonopah Test Range Airport, survived past...
15 KB (1,726 words) - 02:11, 21 October 2024
(NTS) road network, with paved roads leading south to Mercury and west to Yucca Flat. Leading northeast from the lake, the wide and well-maintained Groom...
84 KB (9,449 words) - 04:37, 6 October 2024
role; in the other two films he helmed, The Skydivers and The Beast of Yucca Flats, he limited his acting to cameos. Though John Carradine receives fourth...
8 KB (1,019 words) - 21:41, 15 October 2024
Flat is a hydrographic basin in the Nevada National Security Site south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, Nevada. The flat was used as an American nuclear...
6 KB (717 words) - 12:47, 23 August 2024
Nevada Test Site (redirect from Yucca Flat Test Site)
paved roads, 300 mi (480 km) of unpaved roads, ten heliports, and two airstrips. The site is privately managed and operated by Mission Support and Test...
78 KB (6,709 words) - 17:35, 8 September 2024
weather for tests and when the "Yucca Lake airstrip" became flooded, "nuclear devices" were instead landed at the AFB until Yucca Lake "was completely dried...
35 KB (3,303 words) - 06:16, 5 October 2024
resurfaced and enlarged the Desert Rock airstrip in 1969, extending the runway to a length of 7,500 feet. Although this airstrip was originally built to serve the...
31 KB (2,705 words) - 13:45, 19 July 2024
National Security Complex Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository Other major DOE facilities include: Airstrip: Pahute Mesa Airstrip – Nye County, Nevada,...
48 KB (3,887 words) - 21:29, 13 October 2024
106,000 trees. During World War II, Sahuarita was home to the Sahuarita Airstrip which was used to train bomber pilots for service in the war. Camp Continental...
36 KB (3,887 words) - 04:06, 8 November 2024
military operations, e.g., Groom Lake near the northeast NTTR border is the airstrip for Area 51, the 1955 Site II west of the lake's WWII field. Tolicha Peak...
43 KB (3,783 words) - 20:39, 1 September 2024
volcanic rock. Its mineral-rich stone makes the canyon "a hanging garden of yuccas, cacti, and other life." Big Bend Ranch State Park was expected to enjoy...
12 KB (1,101 words) - 13:58, 4 October 2024
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 36. ISBN 0824811445. The Hardtack I Yucca test was conducted using a stratospheric balloon. The ship with this balloon...
39 KB (4,001 words) - 16:21, 1 November 2024
Airport Chignik Fisheries Airport Gunsight Mountain Airport Fort Glenn Army Airstrip Haycock Airport Loring Seaplane Base Lost River 1 Airport Jonesville Mine...
36 KB (3,097 words) - 00:58, 8 October 2024
Springs #1 #2 #4 #5 Bishop Mojave "B" NOTS MCAAS.Mojave Muroc Kingman Yucca Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX...
26 KB (2,384 words) - 09:07, 11 February 2024
an underground test area that could accommodate higher yield tests than Yucca Flat. Pahute Mesa was seen as ideal due to its geology and distance of over...
8 KB (719 words) - 23:35, 12 July 2023
Springs #1 #2 #4 #5 Bishop Mojave "B" NOTS MCAAS.Mojave Muroc Kingman Yucca Military and other government exploration of the territory included efforts...
51 KB (5,576 words) - 12:20, 16 June 2024
the desert.” Two years later, in 1946, Henry L. Gogerty established an airstrip here and later launched the Desert Air Hotel and Airpark. The Annenberg...
84 KB (9,501 words) - 05:13, 25 October 2024
Williams Field Auxiliary No. 2 is an Arizona Army National Guard training airstrip 11.5 miles (10.0 nmi; 18.5 km) east of the central business district of...
3 KB (243 words) - 19:44, 15 January 2023
000 feet (1,800 m) and 5,150 feet (1,570 m). 12 drop zones and multiple airstrips for Unmanned Aerial Systems A 55-mile (89 km) overland artillery range...
22 KB (1,858 words) - 20:29, 3 November 2024
serviceable runways; Jarvis, Johnston Atoll, Baker, and Howland Islands had airstrips in earlier times but they have long been abandoned and are no longer operational...
19 KB (2,000 words) - 01:05, 23 October 2024
park in Simi Valley (On another version of the movie, it was changed to Yucca Valley, California).[citation needed] The 1992 children's comedy Honey,...
108 KB (11,336 words) - 04:53, 3 November 2024
approximately 22 miles (35 km) west of Mancos. There are a few private airstrips in the vicinity of Mancos, but these are not open to the public; a former...
32 KB (2,965 words) - 21:45, 22 August 2024
received the brunt of the fallout of above-ground nuclear testing in the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site. Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests...
38 KB (4,595 words) - 06:15, 18 October 2024
concrete tower bases. The north–south runway has been graded and reused as Airstrip Road, and one home uses the old 500' x 500' concrete apron as its driveway...
6 KB (655 words) - 18:41, 11 February 2024
by Robert L. Laird, crashed into a mountain 25 miles south-southwest of Yucca Army Airfield in Arizona on a training flight from Yuma AAF. Its five-person...
324 KB (44,758 words) - 18:57, 8 October 2024