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Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility is officially called Homey Airport (ICAO: KXTA, FAA LID: XTA) [2] or Groom Lake (after the salt flat next to its airfield).
List of airports with a paved runway at least 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long. Airport name. Country. Continent. Coordinates. Length.
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 ...
This list of primary airports contains the following information: CITY – The city generally associated with the airport. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve. FAA – The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These are linked ...
This is a list of airports in Massachusetts (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Dugway Proving Ground is located about 85 mi (137 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in southern Tooele County and just north of Juab County. It encompasses 801,505 acres (1,252.352 sq mi; 3,243.58 km 2) of the Great Salt Lake Desert, an area the size of the state of Rhode Island, and is
Known by its map designation as Area 51, this middle-of-nowhere site became a new top-secret military base. ... While the 1998 version does have significant redactions when referencing the name ...
Roads were manually traced from the road lines in the detail map, and cities located from that reference. Maps (listed in references) used for reference when placing features (most features are somewhat schematic, with only moderate attention to details of precise size and location). Errors. 0. Numerous federal land areas are missing 1.