Historic Airports of Death Valley

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RE: Historic Airports of Death Valley - DeathValleyDazed - 2021-10-05

(2021-10-04, 07:15 AM)MojaveGeek Wrote: Might be interesting to go down there some day, or up via that dirt road shown on the Google image.

MG, thanks for this clarification and yes, this would be a fun explore.

RE: Historic Airports of Death Valley - Candace66 - 2021-10-09

(2021-09-22, 11:05 AM)DeathValleyDazed Wrote: I believe Bonnie Claire is also used by bush pilots to test their skills.

Are you referring to the one on Bonnie Claire (dry) Lake? Or the bigger one nearby ("Scotty's Intermediate Field / Bonnie Claire Airport" at the link)? Big Grin

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields - southern Nevada

Earlier this year, I drove out to the bigger one. It's definitely getting brushy, and seems like it would be a risky landing spot.

That website also lists a "Panamint Springs Auxiliary Airfield" that was shown on aeronautical charts. It was supposedly on or near the north end of the dry lake bed in northern Panamint Valley. I definitely have never heard of that!

PS Auxiliary Airfield

But beyond that revelation, with regard to Inyo County, our list here is more comprehensive than the list on that site. I might just send them a link to this thread. Smile

One "landing strip" that should NOT be added to the list: this one, inaccurately shown on the 1985 Darwin Hills 100K map! Big Grin

TownePass_LandingStrip by Candace66, on Flickr

It is actually a dike (levee), as shown on the 1986 Nova Canyon 7.5' quad topo:

TownePass_Dike by Candace66, on Flickr

(2021-10-03, 08:32 PM)MojaveGeek Wrote: Sorry you guys are barking up the wrong "White Sage". White Sage Flat is a very noticeable area to the west as you go over Emigrant Pass. There's an old road trace there and, if this link works, you can see the airstrip pretty clearly:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.3283744,-117.1573194,1961m/data=!3m1!1e3

I was curious about White Sage Flat for years. One year we started up the old road to Pinto from the pass and saw a guy going out that way. Later saw him coming back down our way. So we decided to replicate that loop, which turned out to be nice. There's a lot of Joshua trees out on the flats. There were hints of some former thin coating of asphalt like material on the part that I considered to be the air strip. We followed the old road trace that goes just to the north side of the flat.

Are you talking about the cleared strip, running generally east-west, northeast of the light-colored area? That doesn't appear long enough for an airstrip.

In the light-colored area, I see the road crossing it running generally east-west. Looks like there are multiple tracks so it's a bit wide. The bit running north-south also looks too short for an airstrip.

RE: Historic Airports of Death Valley - DeathValleyDazed - 2021-10-09

(2021-10-09, 08:55 AM)Candace66 Wrote:
(2021-09-22, 11:05 AM)DeathValleyDazed Wrote: I believe Bonnie Claire is also used by bush pilots to test their skills.

Are you referring to the one on Bonnie Claire (dry) Lake? Or the bigger one nearby ("Scotty's Intermediate Field / Bonnie Claire Airport" at the link)?

Candice, me not being aware that two Bonnie Claire strips exist I was generally referring to the dry lake bed. This abandoned air strip thread is fascinating so thanks for adding your research to it.