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Area 51. Coordinates: 37°14′0″N 115°48′30″W. Homey Airport. Near Rachel, Lincoln County, Nevada in United States. A satellite image taken in 2022 captured by Sentinel-2 of ESA showing the base with Groom Lake just to the north-northeast. Homey Airport.
Groom Lake is a dry lake, [1] also described as a salt flat, [2] in Nevada.It is used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport (KXTA). [3] Part of the Area 51 USAF installation, it lies at an elevation of 4,409 ft (1,344 m) [4] and is approximately 3.7 miles (6.0 km) from north to south and 3 miles (4.8 km) from east to west at its widest point, and is approximately 11.3 miles ...
The Tonopah Test Range (TTR, also designated as Area 52) is a highly classified, restricted military installation of the United States Department of Defense, and United States Department of Energy ( nuclear stockpile stewardship) located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. It is part of the northern fringe of the Nellis Range ...
The Origins of a Mystery. The beginning of Area 51 is directly related to the development of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.After World War II, the Soviet Union lowered the Iron Curtain around ...
Current. commander. Colonel James P. Harwell. Dugway Proving Ground ( DPG) is a United States Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah and 13 miles (21 km) south of the 2,624-square-mile (6,800 km 2) Utah Test and Training Range .
List of airports with a paved runway at least 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long ... Area 51/Groom Lake D: ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
Edwards Air Force Base ( AFB) ( IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in California. Most of the base sits in Kern County, but its eastern end is in San Bernardino County and a southern arm is in Los Angeles County. The hub of the base is Edwards, California.
Michael AAF previously had a 13,125-foot (4,000 m) runway which was in poor condition. [4] [5] An FAA airport diagram effective January 2008 shows a 7,000 by 150-foot (46 m) runway (12/30) open parallel to the prior runway, [6] but the diagram effective February 2009 shows a new 11,000 by 150-foot (46 m) runway is open in place of the original runway. [7]