Agua Dulce Airpark

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Agua Dulce Airpark
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA: L70
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Wayne & Connie Spears
Location		Agua Dulce, California
Elevation AMSL		2,660 ft / 811 m
Coordinates		34°30′09″N 118°18′53″W / 34.5025, -118.31472
Website		www.L70airport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
4/22	4,600	1,402	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			2,880
Source: FAA^[1] and airport website^[2]

Agua Dulce Airpark^[1] (FAA LID: L70), also known as Agua Dulce Airport,^[2] is a public-use airport located two miles (3 km) east of the central business district of Agua Dulce, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.^[1]

The airport was built in 1958 by Jim Annin and two partners. In the 1990s, local residents fought an attempt by Los Angeles County to buy the airpark and convert it to a regional airport.^[3] In October of 2005, former airport owner Barry Kirschner sold the property to Wayne and Connie Spears,^[4] owners of Spears Manufacturing^[3] and Spears Motorsports.

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Filming location
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Agua Dulce Airpark covers an area of 190 acres (77 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (4/22) measuring 4,600 x 50 ft. (1,402 x 15 m). For the 12-month period ending May 15, 2006, the airport had 2,880 aircraft operations: 62% transient general aviation and 38% local general aviation.^[1]

[edit] Filming location

The airport has been used as a filming location^[5] for projects including:

The 1983 video for the "Weird Al" Yankovic song I Love Rocky Road was filmed at this airport.^[6]
The 1997 film Fire Down Below built a gas station/minimart set on the runway.^[7]
The 2000 film Space Cowboys used this location as the fictional Bonneville Pass Airport.^[8]