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The Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field [2] (IATA: MHV, ICAO: KMHV) is in Mojave, California, United States, at an elevation of 2,801 feet (854 m). [3] It is the first facility to be licensed in the United States for horizontal launches of reusable spacecraft , being certified as a spaceport by the Federal Aviation Administration on June ...
An aircraft boneyard or aircraft graveyard is a storage area for aircraft which are retired from service. Most aircraft at boneyards are either kept for storage continuing to receive some maintenance or parts of the aircraft are removed for reuse or resale and the aircraft are scrapped. Boneyard facilities are generally located in deserts such ...
California State Route 14. State Route 14 (SR 14) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California that connects Los Angeles to the northern Mojave Desert. The southern portion of the highway is signed as the Antelope Valley Freeway. Its southern terminus is at Interstate 5 (I-5, Golden State Freeway) in the Los Angeles ...
Pinal Airpark's primary function is to serve as a boneyard for civilian commercial aircraft, where the area's dry desert climate mitigates corrosion of the aircraft. It is the largest commercial aircraft storage and heavy maintenance facility in the world. [4] Even so, many aircraft which are brought here wind up being scrapped.
Pages in category "Aircraft boneyards". The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Aircraft boneyard.
1. The VSS Enterprise crash occurred on October 31, 2014, when the VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California. [1][2] Co-pilot Michael Alsbury was killed and pilot Peter ...
The Mojave Air and Space Port as viewed from nearby Highway 58. Mojave (formerly Mohave) [4] is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States. Mojave is located 50 miles (80 km) east of Bakersfield, and 100 miles (161 km) north of Los Angeles, [6] at an elevation of 2,762 feet (842 m). [4]
US Army's Hawes Auxiliary Airfield in 1943. Hawes Auxiliary Airfield (No 1) was an auxiliary field of the Victorville Army Air Field. Built in 1941 with four runways in a triangle shape, three 5,600 foot runways a one 4,912 runway in the center. No support structures were built as the field was only used for take off and landing training.