Grey Butte Field Airport

Gray Butte Field Airport
Gray Butte Auxiliary Airfield

2006 USGS airphoto
Summary
Serves Palmdale, California
Coordinates 34°33′59″N 117°40′13″W / 34.56639°N 117.67028°W / 34.56639; -117.67028
Map
04CA

Location of Gray Butte Field Airport

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08/26 8,000 2,438 Asphalt

Gray Butte Field Airport is a private airport located 25 miles east of Palmdale, California. It is owned by General Atomics of San Diego. Its primary use is the development and testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for the United States military.

History

During World War II, the airport was designated as Gray Butte Auxiliary Airfield (No 4), and was an auxiliary training airfield for Victorville Army Airfield, California.

The wartime runways are abandoned and now used by General Atomics for their UAV testing.

The airfield was assigned the FAA location identifier GVM, but on July 26, 2012, the airport's location identifier was changed to 04CA..[1]

See also

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

  1. ↑ "Location Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved 2012-12-19.


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