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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.
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 ...
The Nevada Test and Training Range land area is mostly Central Basin and Range ecoregion (cf. southernmost portion in the Mojave Desert), [4]: 3–1 and smaller ecoregions (e.g., Tonopah Basin, Tonopah Playa, & Bald Mountain biomes) are within the area of numerous basin and range landforms of the NTTR.
The original 1940 area named Tonopah Bombing Range was split during WWII and 1 of the 2 subdivisions was named Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range in 1947. In 1999 a different area was named a FUDS with the original name--" Tonopah Bombing Range" (J09NV1114) —and the different FUDS J09NV1112 was given a new name --"Tonopah Army Airfield ...
Tonopah Basin, Central Basin and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas; Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 World War II designation of the military region Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range; Tonopah Air Force Base, the 1949 main base for the bombing range; Tonopah Army Air Field, the main base's name in ...
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 Army Air Field, the range's main base first manned by the 1942 "Bombing and Gunnery Range Detachment" Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range, the 1947 designation prior to the 1949 merger of the 2 areas (cf. Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range) Tonopah Air Force Base, the name of the range's main base after c. 1947 transfer to the USAF ...
It was decided to move the Aggressor training program to a more secure, remote facility. The Tonopah Test Range Airport, only 70 miles (110 km) to the northwest of Groom Lake and on the controlled AEC Tonopah Test Range fitted the need for a new home. The AEC airport had the potential for improvement and expansion, with the only public land ...