• 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...
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    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...
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  • dedicated medical facility outside of a traditional emergency room. Yucca Airstrip (IATA: UCC, ICAO: KUCC) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • 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...
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  • Australia -UC- UCB Ulanqab Airport Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China UCC KUCC Yucca Airstrip (FAA: NV11) Mercury, Nevada, United States UCE Eunice Airport (FAA:...
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    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...
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    (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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    National Security Complex Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository Other major DOE facilities include: Airstrip: Pahute Mesa Airstrip – Nye County, Nevada,...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Airport Chignik Fisheries Airport Gunsight Mountain Airport Fort Glenn Army Airstrip Haycock Airport Loring Seaplane Base Lost River 1 Airport Jonesville Mine...
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    Springs #1 #2&#3 #4 #5 Bishop Mojave "B" NOTS MCAAS.Mojave Muroc Kingman Yucca Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX...
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    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...
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    Springs #1 #2&#3 #4 #5 Bishop Mojave "B" NOTS MCAAS.Mojave Muroc Kingman Yucca Military and other government exploration of the territory included efforts...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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,...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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