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The Tonopah Test Range (TTR, also designated as Area 52) is a highly classified, restricted military installation of the United States Department of Defense, and United States Department of Energy (nuclear stockpile stewardship) located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Tonopah, Nevada.
An F-117 based at Tonopah Test Range and piloted by Maj. Ross Mulhare crashed on July 11, 1986 near Bakersfield, California. Another F-117 piloted by Michael C. Stewart was lost on October 14, 1987 on the range about 30 miles east of the TTR Airfield, and it took the Air Force nearly a day to find the wreckage [ 28 ] In both crashes the pilot ...
Nevada Test and Training Range—shares ~1,276 sq mi (3,300 km 2) of the Southern Range with the DNWR Northern Range: Southern Range: southern Tikaboo Valley, Dogbone Dry Lake in Range 62, [15] Northern: Tolich Peak ECR, Tonopah ECR Southern: Point Bravo ECR, Dogbone Lake G&BR, [15] Groom Lake Field in Area 51: USAF: 1942–present
Nevada Test and Training Range; T. ... Tonopah Test Range Airport; W. Winnemucca Air Force Station This page was last edited on 26 June 2024, at 01:35 (UTC). ...
Operation Roller Coaster [1] was a series of four nuclear tests conducted jointly by the United States and the United Kingdom in 1963, at the Nevada Test Site. [2] The tests did not involve the detonation of any nuclear weapons.
In 2001, NAFR was renamed the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) and in October 2001, the range group personnel and assets for range operations transferred to the 98th Range Wing. [36] In 2005, Indian Springs AFAF was renamed Creech Air Force Base and in 2010, the NTS was renamed the Nevada National Security Site . [ 37 ]
Cactus Flat is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins [3] in the Cactus-Sacrobatus Watershed, for which it is an eponym.The flat is the location of the Tonopah Test Range Airport and Tonopah Test Range, a component of the Nevada Test and Training Range used for weapons testing since the 1950s. [4]
Tonopah Airport covers an area of 3,820 acres (1,550 ha) at an elevation of 5,430 feet (1,655 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways : 15/33 is 7,160 by 80 feet (2,182 x 23 m) and 11/29 is 5,660 by 50 feet (1,725 x 15 m).