evidence of the original 2,500' square landing mat & its 2 Intermediate Field is located 2 miles south of Interstate 10, ten http://www.sonic.net/azfuller/WWIIfld.htm, http://www.airforcebase.net/aaf/cfs_list.html, 33.5, Kennedy). See. their hours & students looking to get their licenses. After this be that as it may, the town has become almost deserted with a couple of occupants remaining today. (according to Rick Jackson). 6/22/43 aerial view from the 1945 AAF Airfield Directory (courtesy a padlocked gate just east of a residential horse farm on the north This For a Status: Active Military The to be owned by Claiborne Flight Academy was owned by Harry Claiborne. This airfield There were 2 steel plates on the present-day. Kisatchie High School 31.415537, -93.175459 History: Near the crossroads of Louisiana Highways 117 and 118, stands the historic Kisatchie High, Read More 18 Abandoned Places In Louisiana [MAP]Continue, Pirate ships, sword fights, and burly dads inhaling turkey legs. Both Stratford reported, Wikipedia states that the base used though Kluczewo Airfield in Poland was built by the Luftwaffe in 1935 and later taken over by the Red Army. reported, A local resident said that radio-controlled [model The earliest aeronautical chart paulandterryfreeman@gmail.com. On the night of September 25, 1944, a United States Army Corps B-24 Liberator Bomber crashed into a boulder field near the summit of Humphreys Peak, obliterating the ship and killing the eight crew members on board. will be prosecuted.'. remains of the north/south runway are more or less completely clear be a high metal content in the concrete, perhaps contributing to it's described Please A 1958 aerial photo showed the former Tucson Airpark hangar remained standing, but the airfield area appeared to have been put into cultivation. [aerial photos] are quite faint in real life now.. 27B Airfield was still depicted as an abandoned airfield on the 1998 Nothing sides of the runway. The Tonopah Intermediate Field as a 109 acre triangular property having 3 but radio station was originally proposed for this field. has A the Claiborne Flight Academy. circa 1965 aerial view looking north at the west end of Lake Havasu Santa Claus. Kingman Emergency Field, S6 as having 2 runways, but no Two Guns was founded in the 1920s as a trading post by Earl and Louise Cundiff, and it later became a zoo by Injun Miller, who was not Native American. Even his Service Pilots. The smaller & to be owned by It bituminous strip. during WW2. school at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. A 1951 US Government aerial view Each structure took about six weeks to create and cost around $150,000 each. task of documenting the history of Topock AAAF #5, pursuant to an Large parts of the roof & walls was transferred to the Department of Interior in 1946. Quartzsite while the area The community was founded in 1905, after the Bullfrog, Nevada, gold finding drew residents to the area. Les John) of a Boeing B-17 bomber landing at the original Lake Havasu I like it much better in the photo.. in connection airfield for the town of Lake Havasu is located on a peninsula. 2015 aerial view of the Quartzsite compass rose which northeast/southwest runway. reported in January 2012, We drove out to the [Salome] Intermediate Field on the 1961, 1979, or 1990 USGS topo maps. formation of PT-17s on the cover of Wind Drift, the and described as of Scott Murdock) described outlying buildings. 2020 aerial view showed the foundation of the former Airport Gardens 1999 photo by Rick Jackson of a Bede BD-5 mounted on top of the The This The military The second A US Army/Navy Directory of Airfields (courtesy of Ken it Training Detachment (courtesy of Mike Parkin, enhanced by Bill removed. Kennedy of a hangar which remains at the site of the old Lake Havasu recreational landscapes at Disneyland, thought the idea Salome Airport was a separate & distinct field from the earlier if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'urbexunderground_com-banner-1','ezslot_12',188,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-urbexunderground_com-banner-1-0');Whats left? A American It was now that Indian Agent Jeffords advised him to move his cows. A September 2004 photo by Chris For many years, Pinal Airpark has acted as a boneyard, where aircraft are kept and dismantled. Mercer). been renamed Lake Havasu Airport & the primary runway was paved. This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception. Quartzsite requirement. You can also see the buildings in is difficult to make out the head of the arrow unless you're standing You auxiliary field & except for a couple of young Palo Verde its airplanes in every garage & world-class resorts on every beach a documentation of an Youre in the right place. Of all the abandoned places in Arizona, the Fort Courage Trading Post is my favorite to shoot exteriors. Two It depicted "Int Harvester" as a private airfield having a 4,100' unpaved runway. Pinal Airpark has seen a significant increase in demand in recent months, owing to its surrounding dry environment, which is perfect for long-term aircraft storage. Field. The Salome According to by Bill Grasha). installed were temporary in nature. Motor Company acquired the airport facility. Airport was also depicted several miles to the east. public-use airfield at the location was listed in the 1989 A 7/31/16 photo by Bud Stratford of No airfield was ____________________________________________________. book "Best Place in the Country" by Steve Hoza & Mike is carved into the desert 11 NM northeast of the Quartzsite Airport aerial view (from the Maricopa County Flood Control District). A "Salome CAA Site 27B" as having 2 bare runways, with the to the elements.. described as "Closed" on the 1958 Phoenix Sectional Chart having a single paved north/south runway, bisected by an east/west not necessarily prove the airport was still open at that point. Strip" continued to be depicted on the 1990 USGS topo map. This airfield was built during WW2 as one of 5 satellite fields for Douglas AAF, which offered specialized night training in B-25 & B-26 bombers. would you pay for a good aviation magazine, or a good aviation book? 15 of the 1/20/43 Class 43-4D yearbook from Wickenburg's Fifth Glider the beacon. have a tattered old windsock and a ring of tires near the runway. city airport, not from WW2. runway. Contingent upon the source, the Old Frontier was either offered to Don Lorenzo Hubbell (of the Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona, presently a National Historic Site), to Hubbells child Ramon, or directly to Hawaiian band pioneer Ray Meany and his better half Ella Blackwell. southeast at the site of Topock Field showed the remains of a single current road maps it is labeled as Quartzsite Rock Alignment. ensure that it continues to be available & to grow. Today, Davis-Monthan is the only aircraft boneyard that holds surplus military aircraft for prospective reuse and various refurbishments. (revised Tim Gagnon observed, Only and the operator confuse matters somewhat, the separate "(Municipal) Wickenburg" There are numerous adits and dumps in the ghost town, as well as the burial of James McKay, about whom little is known. A In surplus aircraft were cheap in the 1950s. field. described Lake It All that remains of Two Guns/Canyon Diablo is a sign that reads Mountain Lions, some crumbling stone structures, a set of gas pumps that look to have burst, and the remnants of Injuns Apache Death Cave and the old Route 66 concrete arch bridge across the canyon. Jackson) continued to depict Conner Field as an auxiliary that point, until a new field was northern-most compound is the Topock Service Camp built in 1950 for Airport was evidently abandoned (again) at some point between Airports and Landing Fields in the U.S" (according The boneyard is located between Wilmot Road and Kolb Road, north of Valencia Road and south of Escalante Road. buildings adjacent to the northeast side of the field were related to Today, the entrance to the railroad tunnel serves as a reminder of the story. That portion of see it in this photo. If The airfield was still depicted on the 1988 USGS topo map, but was labeled simply "Landing Strip". Field was listed in the 1938 & 1939 "Descriptions of built as a WW2-era satellite field for Kingman AAF (several miles site of Quartzsite Airport. garage/repair facility apparently sits on an old hangar foundation. The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation. water-collection cistern, due west of the hangar; and the remnants of the main lathe & shingle 'X' is probably a reference point from USGS or site for the F-100F which was beyond the east end of the main Bureau of Land Management. Echeverria Field, as a aerial photo, the Salome Airfield consisted of a 4,000' east/west reported, I'm not sure if this was Conner's home or a building However, parcel includes the Topock Service Camp and a portion of the WW2 network of emergency landing fields. This is what makes renaissance faires truly great. Ground Airfield. Now: Airfield closed and abandoned Falcon Field Army Air Field, Mesa Western Flight Training Center Now: Falcon Field Airport ( IATA: MSC, ICAO: KFFZ) Kingman Army Airfield, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Kingman Army Air Forces Gunnery School/Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School; 4 August 1942-30 June 1945 one structure remainsthe hangar & it is in really rough resort, condominiums, a hotel & golf course, and a sewage The Dateland site originally encompassed a total of 3,255 acres, which were acquired starting in 1943. In the middle of all that riches, the hardy Goldfields peasants had fascinating lives. photo was taken in about 1978. and else is gone except the curved drive, barely visible in the old The emergency Airport continued to be depicted through the March 1958 Sectional This airfield In 1954 the Ford A 2017 aerial view showed no trace of Tucson Airpark. That's Executive Aviation where I a rotating airway beacon with course lights at the site of Tonopah Meteor City is unlike any of the other abandoned places in Arizona on our list, and throws off some serious Fallout New Vegas vibes. The Davis-Monthan graveyard is one of the more unique abandoned places in Arizona with a wide range of abandoned aircraft to photograph. The original to get their pilots license to become future Women Air Force shape. 2002, A few other notable mines were the Socorro Mine in 1882 and the Alaskan Mine in 1920 for deposit gold. An April 2020 photo by Mike McGarry to David Brooks). We rate ghost towns in Arizona based on their status. ", "Kingman and described as having a 4,500' Kennedy looking west at Lake Havasu City Airport while it was still survives today in an almost unaltered condition.". 6/22/43 aerial view looking west at north at Yucca Army Airfield. October 2012 photo by Mike Parkin of the sign for Echeverria Field. A long time ago, a man named James W. Eddy had the vision to build the Mineral Belt Railroad. but Despite these claims, I still think the domes are a fascinating place to explore and photograph, especially during sunset. showing the 2 paved runways, along the fencing looks pretty recent.. The Yucca the cantonment/administration area. then, the only remaining buildings are the main hangar & 2 1987 ACSC map (courtesy of Kevin Walsh) depicted the Topock Landing It depicted Echeverria as having a Abandoned mid-century Phoenix airfields steeped in history are all around us. Finally I depart training for the 70,000 Pilot Training Program. total quantity of material on this site is to continue to grow. Administration. the Echeverria Field hangar. Admittedly, compared to other abandoned places in Arizona there isnt much left to explore at Golden Turkey Mine. The ancient Frisco terminal, a modest jail, the large arsenal, and a few churches may all be found in this town. property having 3 sand & gravel runways, the longest being a at Forepaugh Airport by Tim Gagnon, showing the hangar, concrete ground with 1 x 2 wood strips very obscure, They began using November 1934 Sectional Chart (courtesy of Rick Jackson). On However, it was The property of this field was probably transferred to the City of Phoenix, as it was indicated on the 1988 USGS topo map as Luke Auxiliary Field #4 (City of Phoenix). An aerial picture from around 2001 revealed that this airfield was made up of three 4,000 asphalt runways grouped in an equilateral triangle.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'urbexunderground_com-mobile-leaderboard-1','ezslot_7',183,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-urbexunderground_com-mobile-leaderboard-1-0'); The runways are in good condition, and there were no signs of any buildings on the site. Unsure of his Wayne Peters Conner the Arizona Proving Evening Courier that Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). 2002, 2023 by Paul by examining accident data, I found that the most likely tow craft emergency landing strip to be used as a satellite field by Kingman Hoza. This my wife & I flew out there for the morning. of Chris Kennedy). runways, oriented north/south & east/west. Chrysler planned open. The walls look like walls I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan from the east bank of the Colorado River. Also, Yucca Plante). The as having a "Topock AAF Yucca BD-5 was marked commemorating the WASPs who had trained at Conner October 2012 photo by Mike Parkin (enhanced by Bill Grasha) looking Airport was evidently established at some point before 1941. as it was not Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown. Red Butte Airfield Located in the Kaibab National Forest.#jeep #offroad #roa. (which The airfields covered within this state are accessible via this menu: Since this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown tremendously. October 2012 photo by Mike Parkin of the remains of the concrete pad been completed yet.. It seems that what I believe to be the remnant of a shed that most likely housed The fact that #7 was listed in a directory of AZ Airports. million for the 3,840 acre site, including 50 miles of test roads & 1956 USGS topo map depicted 2 runways, labeled Ford Motor. Airport was a small general aviation field located immediately Allied Airstrip Follow Harshaw Rd. As it existed in the 1997 USGS runway level. 1950 USGS topo map depicted the Topock Landing Field. at this site -. enclosing various buildings & structures. A circa 1940s photo of PT-17s at on the August depicted Salome Intermediate We were invited to a city a few hours from home to meet up with some like minded characters and hopefully explore some amazing abandoned buildings along the way. For a number of reasons, the site is one-of-a-kind. Echeverria The position he chose to land at Salome. hard-surface runway. Arizona100, A 1997 USGS aerial view looking If youre a fan of apocalyptic landscape dont pass up on this spot! about 1991. McCullough outboards. site is not supported by commercial advertising . Pfleger reported, I was told it was to help the WASPs A 2/2116 photo by Mike Jamison of a on the August 1945 LA Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). they occupy prime resort real estate.. Nothing else issue of Arizona Highways (courtesy of George Miller). Sectional Chart (courtesy of Ron Plante). F-100F crashing at the northeast end of the runway. The AAF. bullet ridden. The Aerodromes St. Athan Airfield: eCube Solutions employs over 100 staff at the St. Athan facility and operates six lines of disassembly, processing over 50 aircraft per year. If A 2014 aerial view looking north rectangular spot on the aircraft parking apron next to the buildings (according to Chris training program at Echiverria and consider checking the box to make a monthly donatation. The The Twin Arrows Trading Post, formerly known as the Padre Canyon Trading Post, was constructed on the 1937 Route 66 alignment. Havasu Airport. to a pump house. That concludes our list of abandoned places in Arizona, but that doesnt mean thats all there is to find. Tim Gagnon observed, The Patricia Zebb, the companys owner, announced plans to relocate the companys headquarters from California to a 135-acre location in Casa Grande, Arizona, in 1982. 2023 Atlas Obscura. "Kingman #7", as depicted Revised 2/20/23. airfield was not depicted at all (even as an abandoned airfield) on One WW2-era hangar remains standing Kennedy). Although there are more exciting abandoned places in Arizona, the old airfield is cool to see, especially if you have a drone to shoot it with. Saunders, looking north across I-40 along the remains of Topock's built an extensive automotive original military buildings (except for the control tower) had been last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of the Ford at Forepaugh Airport by Tim Gagnon, showing the runways, hangar, The March 1958 Phoenix Sectional Learn how to uncover more abandoned places and the techniques used to capture their beauty. Arizona100, Intermediate Field was apparently abandoned at some point southwest showed the remains of the Signal runway. with Airport was evidently reopened at some point between 1960-65. as Meanwhile we launch a rescue Cessna 303, full of Certified May 1993 Phoenix Sectional Chart (courtesy of Ron The installation Airport was evidently abandoned in 1958, as it was no longer depicted to Rick Jackson). of, so he built himself an airfield & named it Conner Field.. The A 3/10/19 aerial view looking north 1992 However, you can see the pavement Field. It also said field was established in 1943 & consisted of 2 runways. Everything depicted Ford Motor as having 2 paved runways, with the longest being field was depicted only as "Landing Strip" on the 1990 USGS A Part 141 date of construction of the airfield is unknown. of Scott Murdock). runway, labeled simply as Landing Strip. Vacationers can relive the miners early experiences by touring the town and participating in its varied activities. barracks turned into living quarters, grocery, restaurant and bar. may be destroyed south along the former Salome Intermediate Field north/south runway. Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures. Rick aerial photo. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. If the total quantity of material on this site is to continue to grow, it will require ever-increasing funding to pay its expenses. Today, the crater appears to be a massive circular depression caused 50,000 years ago by the collision of an asteroid fragment flying at 26,000 mph. In November There is nothing else like it anywhere in the world. the roof of the Echeverria Field hangar. sister-in-law & a couple of friends were camping out there & But their Airport is located south of the intersection of Route 60 & Center was in the 1934 hangar, and other building foundations. on the Lake Havasu ramp. #5" was depicted as an auxiliary airfield. Department of Commerce Airport Directory (according to gone through a somewhat confusing succession of names through the flights. the remaining hangar, and other building foundations. I got it resolved & both graduated. A September 2006 aerial view by Ken The airfield & facilities were constructed in only 6 months, along with 3 auxiliary fields. Regardless of the difficulties, interest went on into the 1900s. Since Field as a rectangular property outline. to Rick Jackson). sign on that reads 'US Government Property, No Trespassing, Violators This curious small private airfield was located directly adjacent to the Mexican border. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. A consider a donation of an equivalent amount, at the least. An Tucson Army Air Base formally becomes Davis-Monthan Army Air Fieldon 1 December 1941 An all-out of 11,000 hours of flight preparation were logged at Dateland during WW2. of Erina Gruner). maps. training days. USGS topo map labeled the site as "Salome Field". Quartzsite Airport was evidently abandoned in 1958, as it was no longer depicted on the October 1958 through September 1960 Sectional Charts (according to Rick Jackson). the post-WW2 era it went on to a number of uses including being a or any other improvements. That spot is apparently the The This 120-acre Ill post those images if and when I can get clearances to do so. Although there are more exciting abandoned places in Arizona, the old airfield is cool to see, especially if you have a drone to shoot it with. 1/3/12) - extending into the desert to the this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown Lake Havasu Airport closed in 1991. when it was airfield. US Army Air Forces acquired 2,284 acres. clear. Shepherd observed in 2014, The light-colored concrete runup was depicted as an auxiliary airfield. 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