Pixley Airport

Pixley Airport
(Harmon Field)
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA LID: P27
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner County of Tulare
Serves Pixley, California
Elevation AMSL 256 ft / 78 m
Coordinates 35°57′37″N 119°18′30″W / 35.96028°N 119.30833°W / 35.96028; -119.30833
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 2,050 625 Asphalt
Statistics (1993)
Aircraft operations 8,400
Based aircraft 7

Pixley Airport (FAA LID: P27, formerly Q90), also known as Harmon Field, was a county-owned public-use airport located in Tulare County, California, United States, one nautical mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district of Pixley, California.[1]

The airport opened in 1949. It was vacated and closed in early 1994 due to pesticide contamination from its years as a base for crop dusting.[2][3][4][5]

The airport's FAA location identifier was Q90 until 2003,[6] when it was changed to P27.[7] It remained in published FAA records until 2008, when it was listed as "public use" and noted as "closed indefinitely".[1]

Facilities and aircraft

Pixley Airport covered an area of [8]99 acres (40 ha) at an elevation of 256 feet (78 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,050 by 60 feet (625 x 18 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending July 20, 1993, the airport had 8,400 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 23 per day. At that time there were 7 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-engine and 14% multi-engine.[1]

References[9]

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 "P27 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective July 31, 2008". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.
    2. ↑ "Pixley Airport / Harmon Field, Pixley, CA". Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
    3. ↑ "Cleanup Costs For Tainted Pixley Airport ...". The Fresno Bee. March 29, 1987.
    4. ↑ Collins, Aaron (November 17, 2004). "Pixley Airport Still Toxic After 15+ Year Cleanup Attempt". Valley Voice Newspaper.
    5. ↑ Doan, Lynn (May 9, 2005). "Tulare County closer to cleaning airport". Visalia Times-Delta.
    6. ↑ "Q90 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective September 4, 2003". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on October 2, 2003.
    7. ↑ "P27 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective August 5, 2004". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on August 21, 2004.
    8. ↑ Fact Sheet, September 2010, Revised Draft Remedial Action Plan and Proposed Negative Declaration for the Harmon Field Site, prepared by California Department of Toxic Substances Control.
    9. ↑ Remedial Action Plan Report, Harmon Field, Pixley, California, May 1995 prepared by Canonie Environmental for County of Tulare.
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