Tonopah Airport


Tonopah Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located seven nautical miles east of the central business district of Tonopah, in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
It incorporates the former Tonopah Army Airfield, a World War II installation where many units of the USAAF, such as the 357th Fighter Group, trained. The 357th later flew P-51 Mustang fighters against the German Luftwaffe, from their base at Leiston, on the south-eastern coast of Britain.

Facilities and aircraft

Tonopah Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 5,430 feet above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 15/33 is 7,161 by 80 feet and 11/29 is 6,196 by 50 feet.
For the 12-month period ending November 30, 2009, the airport had 12,727 aircraft operations, an average of 34 per day: 74% general aviation, 25% air taxi, and 2% military. At that time six aircraft were based here: 5 single-engine and 1 helicopter.