Adamson Landing Field

Adamson Landing Field
Adamson Landing Field
	2006 USGS airphoto
	IATA: none; ICAO: none;
Summary
Serves	Olancha, California
Coordinates	36°15′23″N117°59′52″W / 36.25639°N 117.99778°W Coordinates: 36°15′23″N117°59′52″W / 36.25639°N 117.99778°W
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	Adamson Landing Field Location of Adamson Landing Field
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Last updated March 06, 2019

Adamson Landing Field is a closed airport located 1.8 mi south-southeast of Olancha, California.

Olancha is a census designated place in Inyo County of the U.S. state of California. Olancha is located on U.S. Route 395 in California, 37 miles (60 km) south-southeast of Independence, at an elevation of 3658 feet. As of the 2010 census, the population was 192, up from 134 at the 2000 census.

History

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces as an auxiliary training airfield for the flying school at Lone Pine Airport, California.

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The facility closed sometime after the war. The remains of the runways and ground facilities can be seen in aerial imagery.

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

The Air Force Historical Research Agency is the repository for United States Air Force historical documents. The Agency's collection, begun during World War II in Washington, D.C. and moved in 1949 to Maxwell Air Force Base, the site of Air University, to provide research facilities for professional military education students, the faculty, visiting scholars, and the general public.

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