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Runway Cafe
I've never seen an airport diner that served pad thai before. Or mariscos. On the same menu as your classic burgers and steaks, and all excellent!
Heliport coverage by the FAA
... is NOTORIOUSLY bad. Even heliports that have continually existed for the last forty years are routinely given GPS coordinates up to 10 miles off course.
Repurposed!
Hastings Field is no longer an active airstrip ... for fixed wing craft. There's a pretty shiny looking heliport there now though!
El Gamil
This appears to be the same airport that was involved in the 1956 Suez Crisis (as "El Gamil Airfield").
Re: PVG
Multiple airports can have the same three-letter code in *different* organization systems. Yes, PVG is the IATA code for Shanghai Pudong, but PVG is also the FAA LID for Hampton Roads. Note that Shanghai Pudong won't *have* an FAA LID because that is only for airports within the United States.
Obviously the ICAO codes (ZSPD and KPVG) are therefore quite different.
Misplaced all along.
The FAA had this misplaced the whole time.
Fixed location.
GAP is an aeromodeling (R/C) field located just to the SE of the larger general aviation airport. Note that it is far shorter than the listed 1969'.
IATA note
Has the same IATA code as Mano Dayak International but is a separate airfield, operated by the United States Air Force.
If it did exist, it wasn't here.
FAA is notoriously bad at plotting correct lat/longs of heliports. This probably did exist somewhere within a 5 mile radius of this spot. AirNav doesn't list RI14 anymore at any rate.
Scratch that
New heading coming up for Beijing Nanjiao.
Reopened as military airport
This is evidently now known as Beijing Nanjiao Airport, and has reopened but strictly for military use as of 2021.
Closed
Airnav and FAA now list this as CLOSED INDEFINITELY so there we go.
Repurposed duplicate
No longer a duplicate, carry on!
Possible reactivation
The provincial governor had promised reconstruction of this airport at least as far back as 2018 and progress is being made on reopening it despite COVID related delays.
Update
I've given this a provisional name based on the location, but I've come up with the same problem as @im -- not mapped, no data available. More research needed.
FAA oddity - a CA coded airport in Nevada
Per Airnav:
Sectional chart: (AIRPORT IS 10 MILES INTO NEVADA. THE CLOSEST ASSC CITY IS BISHOP, CA - AND IS CORRECTLY CHARTED ON SAN FRANCISCO SECTIONAL.)
Since it's not actually in California, I have corrected the data to reflect that it is indeed closer to Dyer, Nevada.
Army National Guard Helicopter LZ
Used for landings in support of frequent Texas ANG helicopter operations at this lake.
Corrected.
It only took a decade ... but yeah, we're all good here now.
Update
Signed as closed and for sale. Gliderport field is overgrown and now dotted with bushes. Checked in-person 15 May 2021.
Gyrofield, you say?
Per this exceptional decade-long blog featuring WW2 Japanese installations (the link for this particular location is here https://airport1111.blog.ss-blog.jp/matsunami-airstrip but is in Japanese), this was the staging area for the use of Kayaba Ka-1 (reverse-engineered Kellett KD-1) observation autogyros which were used here primarily for submarine spotting.
Repurposing duplicate
Reusing Snyder Airport duplicate to cover nearby hospital heliport.
Per Wikipedia
TXL saw its last flight on 8 November 2020 after all traffic had been transferred gradually to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport until this date. It has been legally decommissioned as an airfield after a mandatory transitional period on 4 May 2021. All government flights were also relocated to the new airport with the exception of helicopter operations which will stay at a separate area on the northern side of Tegel Airport until 2029.
Can you imagine an airport here?
Per http://www.aerofiles.com/airports-CA.html, "[approx: 37-43-22N, 119-38-09W] (19??-19??) 1927 = W of Yosemite Village; "approximately 1300' square grass field, very dangerous." 1928 = (L) (Standard Oil ad, WnFly 1/28). 19?? = (R) Closed to flying activity." The listed coordinates place this at El Capitan Meadow! This does not appear to be listed on Freeman's Abandoned Airports site.
Repurposing duplicate
This was previously a duplicate heading for Mestia Airport -- it's been repurposed for a heliport near Tbilisi.
Site of Arizona Flying Circus Fly-in
Not quite the same location as the old dedicated airfield to the west, but in a way this resort continues to have aviation facilities in the 21st century. Pretty neat.
21 Apr 2021 Accident
US Army CV-22 Osprey accidentally destroyed this helipad's surface on 21 Apr 2021. Whoops! https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/us-military-helicopter-helipad-destroy-addenbrooke-hospital-b931223.html
Found it
Sometimes, the FAA coordinates are just plain wrong. I found this airstrip using Topo Maps and the address of the owner. It's closed now, but you can at least see where the airstrip was cleared out in past years.
WWII Airstrip
Not to be confused with the modern Talasea Airport to the north, this is the site of two crashed WWII planes (a B-25 Mitchell and a Lockheed Ventura) still clearly visible in 2021.
Used for 1992 Landing of Mickey Mouse One
Upon the retirement of Walt Disney's private plane Mickey Mouse One (Grumman Gulfsream I N234MM) in 1992, it landed here to be displayed at the adjacent MGM (now Hollywood Studios), as the old Walt Disney World Airport to the north had been blocked off by the construction of the monorail system. Further use of the site for aviation purposes has been permanently precluded by the No Fly Zone orders in place since 2001.
A bit of forgotten aviation history
New York Airways ran helicopter commuter flights here 1965-1968, and again briefly in 1977. A landing accident here on May 16, 1977 killed four passengers and a pedestrian on the street below, ending the use of skyscraper helipads in New York City, though they remain in use in other cities elsewhere, primarily for emergency use.
Misplaced marker
I've moved this to the apparent SW-NE runway several km east of town. Marker *had* been in town where there is clearly no airport.
Not sure why tagged as a "spam airport".
This definitely exists, clearly visible on Google and OSM sat-maps.
Update 2021
Reopened as of September 2019, primarily being used to store aircraft for Vueling during the COVID crisis.
No longer in use
Clipped by the border and no longer even entirely in Iraq!
The Lowest Airport in the World
Between 1240 and 1266 ft below sea level, Bar Yehuda Airfield is the lowest altitude airport on the planet.
Geographical quirk!
Despite being less than two miles from the sea, Madha Airport is in a landlocked exclave of Oman, completely surrounded by the UAE. There's also a smaller enclave of UAE land within the Madha territory. There are no border crossings in any case, as the relationship between the UAE and Oman in modern times is sufficiently cordial as to make this largely a non-issue.
Closed since 1977.
Microsoft Flight Simulator lists this, hilariously, as "USEU Severo-Kurilsk". Okeanskoye has been closed and unusable since at least the 1970s.
Repurposing duplicate
Since I am unable to merge, I'm repurposing this heading for a different aviation facility in India.
re: Crimea
Hi Bill35! In the current iteration of the database: neither Crimea nor Sevastopol are selectable as independent entities or as subdivisions of Russia, only as subdivisions of Ukraine. The United Nations continues to consider Crimea and Sevastopol as Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia. There are instances where OurAirports diverges from strict UN interpretation (ie. Taiwan, Kosovo) and note that the islands of the southern Kuril chain are reckoned as strictly Russian and not Japanese (mirroring decades of de facto control), but for the most part, I believe this site adheres to UN and IATA policy.
Remanded to Website Owner
I am too busy adding unlisted airports and heliports throughout the world to continue to deal with this regional spat. I have remanded this to the OurAirports administrator for an official decision. If he decides to add Crimea and Sevastopol as subdivisions of the Russian Republic, then that's up to him.
Please stop moving this airport to Russia.
Unless and until the UN recognizes the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia, we should continue to list all airports in Crimea as being in Ukraine. There is no subdivision for Crimea or Sebastopol under the Russia heading. This is not the time or place for nationalistic sentiment -- this is simply abiding by the good-faith standards of database maintenance.
To be reopened by 2023
Apparently under (re)construction as Vlorë International Airport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlor%C3%AB_International_Airport
Crisis averted!
I've repurposed this duplicate to cover a different airfield.
Re: Camí Heliport
This name was incorrect. Camí in Catalan means path, and therefore Camí Heliport is "Heliport Path", the name of the adjacent road. The correct name (Terra Guindaldes) has been applied to this heliport.
Transliteration notes
This is labeled as "Ogyokaidozoino Helipad" in Google Maps. This is extremely incorrect.
The adjacent road is actually "Osakana-kaido", NOT "Ogyo-kaido" (literally "fish road"), and the "zoino" is a misreading of "zoi no" meaning "along", and not part of the helipad's name. Basically, the Japanese is transliterated as "o-sakana-kaido zoi no heliport", or translated as "the heliport along Fish Road". Without the actual name, I'm using the name of the adjacent road (Osakana-kaido) which shouldn't be translated literally in this case.
beware MSFS fake ICAO codes
Yeah, Asobo / MSFS have created a lot of their own GPS/ICAO codes for airports that are not congruent with reality, especially as heliports are not yet rendered in the sim as of the end of 2020 (so they wouldn't catch the duplicate).
(no subject)
Recently paved and painted as of 20 Dec 2020. No perimeter fence, directly adjacent to FM 1470 to the south, private residences to the north.
well that's a tight fit
Lots of signage warning pedestrians and motorists going into the adjacent parking garage of the "Helicopter Landing Zone". Rotor wash here must be all sorts of fun.
Wrong information redacted.
I couldn't find any IATA or ICAO info on this airstrip, so I've removed "TUYO" and moved "TUY" to a local code, though this is questionable at best. At least we know there's an airstrip here, not much else to go on.
2022 Google Maps imagery
🔗 Thu, 16 Jun 2022
— @animebirder at Paradise Mountain Airport, United States
New airfield visible in 2022 GMaps.