Lone Pine Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Location | Lone Pine, California | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 3,680 ft / 1,122 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 36°35′17.760″N 118°03′07.31″W / 36.58826667°N 118.0520306°W | ||||||||||||||
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Lone Pine Airport (FAA LID: O26) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) southeast of Lone Pine serving Inyo County, California, United States. The airport has two runways and is mostly used for general aviation. Services include air ambulance for the southern part of the county, and search and rescue for Mount Whitney and Death Valley.[1]
Charts: San Francisco; L5.
Lone Pine Airport has two runways:
During World War II, the airport was used as a contract flying school by the United States Army Air Forces. The school operated between 1942 and 1944. It also controlled several auxiliary airfields: