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Tonopah Test Range Airport (IATA: XSD, ICAO: KTNX, FAA LID: TNX), [2] [3] [4] at the Tonopah Test Range (Senior Trend project site PS-66) [5] is 27 NM (50 km; 31 mi) southeast of Tonopah, Nevada, and 140 mi (230 km) northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a major airfield with a 12,000 ft × 150 ft (3,658 m × 46 m) runway, instrument approach ...
About five minor abandoned airfields exist throughout the TTR [4] which were primarily used during World War II by units based at Tonopah Army Air Field (now serving as Tonopah's municipal airport). Only Mellan Airstrip , 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Tonopah Test Range Airport, survived past the 1960s, upgraded to a 5,000-foot (1,500 m ...
The NTTR land area includes a "simulated Integrated Air Defense System", several individual ranges with 1200 targets, and 4 remote communication sites. [1] The current NTTR area and the range's former areas have been used for aerial gunnery and bombing, for nuclear tests , as a proving ground and flight test area, for aircraft control and ...
When the 4450th TG deployed carrying these bogus devices, Air Police closed down the base and ringed the field with machine gun-toting jeeps. They forced all the runway personnel to turn their backs to the A-7s as they taxied past, and actually had them spread-eagled on the deck with their eyes closed until the 4450th TG A7s took off.
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