Message posted by Joshua Nyhus on January 09, 2004 at 1:50:26 PST:
Hey, I was just flying in Flight Sim 2004 at El Mirage Airfield and when I opened my GPS window I noticed that Gray Butte was listed as an airfield (04CA). (Which I didn’t get because I thought it was closed for RCS testing then sold to General Atomics for their UAV tests.) So I went to their Web Site and looked around and found that they have made a whole new runway! I always figured they would take out the old RCS stuff and re-pave the original runways. This may have already have been posted, if so, sorry. Link to Press Release: http://www.ga.com/news/graybutte.html BTW, El Mirage Airfield (former General Atomics UAV test airfield) is now for sell here: http://www.socalvacation.com/Airport%20for%20sale.html
Link to General Atomics Pictures and Info: http://www.uav.com/about/general_info.html
Link to Airnav Info: http://www.airnav.com/airport/04CA
Link to a 2003 Color Terraserver Picture: http://www.terraserver.com/imagery/image_gx.asp?cpx=-117.675344159337&cpy=34.5648947050838&res=8&provider_id=305&view=A&t=pan
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