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The CIA asked the AEC to acquire the land, designated "Area 51" on the map, and to add it to the Nevada Test Site. [9]: 56–57 Johnson named the area "Paradise Ranch" to encourage workers to move to "the new facility in the middle of nowhere", as the CIA later described it, and the name became shortened to "the Ranch".
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In the Warner Bros. movie Looney Tunes Back in Action, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck visit a secret military base in the Nevada Desert, used mainly as a storage for extraterrestrial lifeforms and technology and government secrets, called Area 52. In the movie, this base is the "real" Area 51, and the name "Area 51" is only a cover for Area 52.
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 ...
In addition to Nellis AFB, areas outside of the current NTTR land area are used for related activities, e.g., about 1,107 sq mi (2,870 km 2) of the former military range land (relinquished 1942, e.g. ranges 46–56, [10] and c. 1953) is under the Nellis "Area A" airspace that is a Military Operations Area (MOA). [11]
The Nellis managed airspace [3]: 4–13 associated with the complex is more than 12,700 sq mi (33,000 km 2), [2] is the responsibility of the "US Air Force Virtual (USAFv), A3", and "is composed of the Desert MOA, with overlying Air Traffic Control Assigned Airspace (ATCAA), Reveille North and South MOA and ATCAA, [and] Restricted Areas": [10]
The sectionals are complemented by terminal area charts (TACs) at 1:250,000 scale for the areas around major U.S. airports, and until 2016 by World Aeronautical Charts (WACs) at a scale of 1:1,000,000 for pilots of slower aircraft and aircraft at high altitude. [1] Since February 2021, the charts have been updated on a 56-day publication cycle. [2]
A self drawn map showing a number of interesting government facilities and their extensive ranges in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The map was originally intended for Area 51, but it's also used in Nellis Air Force Base, Tonopah Test Range, Yucca Mountain, Mercury, Nevada, Nevada Test Site, Nellis Air Force Range, and Desert ...