Pixley Airport

Pixley Airport
(Harmon Field)
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA LID: P27
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner County of Tulare
Serves Pixley, California
Elevation AMSL 256 ft / 78 m
Coordinates 35°57′37″N 119°18′30″W / 35.96028°N 119.30833°W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 2,050 625 Asphalt
Statistics (1993)
Aircraft operations 8,400
Based aircraft 7

Pixley Airport (FAA LID: P27, formerly Q90), also known as Harmon Field, was a county-owned public-use airport located in Tulare County, California, United States, one nautical mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district of Pixley, California.[1]

The airport opened in 1949. It was closed near the end of the 1980s or early 1990s due to pesticide contamination from its years as a base for crop dusting.[2][3][4][5]

The airport's FAA location identifier was Q90 until 2003,[6] when it was changed to P27.[7] It remained in published FAA records until 2008, when it was listed as "public use" and noted as "closed indefinitely".[1]

Facilities and aircraft

Pixley Airport covered an area of 99 acres (40 ha) at an elevation of 256 feet (78 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,050 by 60 feet (625 x 18 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending July 20, 1993, the airport had 8,400 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 23 per day. At that time there were 7 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-engine and 14% multi-engine.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "P27 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective July 31, 2008". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Pixley Airport / Harmon Field, Pixley, CA". Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Cleanup Costs For Tainted Pixley Airport ...". The Fresno Bee. March 29, 1987.
  4. ↑ Collins, Aaron (November 17, 2004). "Pixley Airport Still Toxic After 15+ Year Cleanup Attempt". Valley Voice Newspaper.
  5. ↑ Doan, Lynn (May 9, 2005). "Tulare County closer to cleaning airport". Visalia Times-Delta.
  6. ↑ "Q90 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective September 4, 2003". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on October 2, 2003.
  7. ↑ "P27 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective August 5, 2004". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on August 21, 2004.

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