Miller Army Airfield (Chiniak, AK)

USA / Alaska / Chiniak / Chiniak, AK
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Constructed sometime during WWII as a fighter landing strip and abandoned during the late '70s. P-3 Orions from Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, CA would fly up here to retrieve Corona spy satellite film picked up and dropped here by C-130s during the '60s.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)
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Coordinates:   57°36'50"N   152°11'47"W
This article was last modified 18 years ago