Pixley Airport

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Pixley Airport

(Harmon Field)
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCounty of Tulare
Serves Pixley, California
Elevation  AMSL 256 ft / 78 m
Coordinates 35°57′37″N119°18′30″W / 35.96028°N 119.30833°W / 35.96028; -119.30833
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
13/312,050625Asphalt
Statistics (1993)
Aircraft operations8,400
Based aircraft7

Pixley Airport( FAA LID : P27, formerly Q90), also known as Harmon Field, was a county-owned public-use airport located in Tulare County, California, United States, one nautical mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district of Pixley, California. [1]

Contents

The airport opened in 1949. It was vacated and closed in early 1994 due to pesticide contamination from its years as a base for crop dusting. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Pixley airport's FAA location identifier was Q90 until 2003, [7] when it was changed to P27. [8] It remained in published FAA records until 2008, when it was listed as "public use" and noted as "closed indefinitely". [1]

Facilities and aircraft

Pixley Airport covered an area of [9] 99 acres (40 ha) at an elevation of 256 feet (78 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,050 by 60 feet (625 x 18 m). [1]

For the 12-month period ending July 20, 1993, the airport had 8,400 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 23 per day. At that time, there were 7 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-engine and 14% multi-engine. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "P27 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective July 31, 2008". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.
  2. ↑ Remedial Action Plan Report, Harmon Field, Pixley, California, May 1995 prepared by Canonie Environmental for County of Tulare.
  3. ↑ "Pixley Airport / Harmon Field, Pixley, CA". Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Archived from the original on August 7, 2013. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Cleanup Costs For Tainted Pixley Airport ..." The Fresno Bee . March 29, 1987.
  5. ↑ Collins, Aaron (November 17, 2004). "Pixley Airport Still Toxic After 15+ Year Cleanup Attempt". Valley Voice Newspaper.
  6. ↑ Doan, Lynn (May 9, 2005). "Tulare County closer to cleaning airport". Visalia Times-Delta.
  7. ↑ "Q90 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective September 4, 2003". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on October 2, 2003.
  8. ↑ "P27 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective August 5, 2004". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on August 21, 2004.
  9. ↑ Fact Sheet, September 2010, Revised Draft Remedial Action Plan and Proposed Negative Declaration for the Harmon Field Site, prepared by California Department of Toxic Substances Control.
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