Bonnie Claire Lake Landing Strip | runway, place with historical importance

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runway, place with historical importance

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A single landing strip down the middle of a dry lakebed, and not a hell of a lot else. Apparently constructed in the 1960s, possibly as an emergency landing strip for the X-15 rocket plane.

www.airfields-freeman.com/NV/Airfields_NV_S.htm#bonniec...

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Coordinates: 37°10'2"N 117°9'41"W

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Area 27 98 km
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Tonopah Airport (TPH/KTPH) 101 km
Wendover Airport (Former Wendover Air Force Base) (EDV/KEDV) 479 km
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Grapevine Mountain Wilderness Study Area 5.5 km
Queer Mountain Wilderness Study Area 14 km
Timbisha Shashone Tribe 16 km
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Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range 39 km
Target Airfield 40 km
Mock targets for Red Flag exercises 52 km
Malpais Mesa 59 km
Tonopah Test Range (Area 51-A) 79 km
Nevada Test and Training Range 85 km

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