Municipal airport @ Salina, Kansas, the former Schilling/Smoke Hill AFB, closed in 65, several runways, longest 12,300'.
Until further notice, please know that things are progressing according to plan. I do not give up and I do not lose.
Tman, That site was interesting and fun but not much on there that fits the requirements from what I scanned. The other links show promise for options those in MS and further on out west though.
Roadracer, Brunswick does have the outstanding feature of being down the road from the lobster feast in Popham Beach and also has a great fried oyster joint just across from the north end of the runway; unfortunately, it doesn't look like the runways are long enough.
Found another old ECTA newsletter with similar issues when Spence Field became not available. Suggestions that currently might be possible include Cecil Field NAS, Jacksonville, BRAC abandoned in 1999 and currently with industrial/community use but non military. Recent comment suggested someone wanted start a flying school so presume runways still there. A real possible. 12000 ft.I would love to be able to race at Cecil Field. I spent many days there in the Navy. Last I heard the Coast Guard and DEA were flying intervention flights from there. Lots of runway there and easy access to the place.
Second is the Oklahoma "space port" 15000 ft. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/157/1 Burns Flat near Clinton, OK. Getting a bit far from "east coast) but worth some looking into.
I spent a lot of time ... .... but we're looking ...I love ya' man! Thank you
K
How about an LSR community? 100 houses and a community center with a dyno or a wind tunnel. Sell the houses for a good price and set the whole thing up along a 3 mile roadway. Just a dream :cheers:
http://www.spaceportamerica.com (http://www.spaceportamerica.com)
Close to my home town of Las Cruces New Mexico they are building a space port. The runway is now compleat and is a concrete 200ft x 10,000ft. As of now they are still in the construction stage of the project and don't know how the runway is being used or when, but might be worth Keith Turk looking into.
Dave
NM space port - 1 days drive?? 5 days from here :-(A little reassurance would be nice....Maxton is only a 4 hour tow for me......That's about all I can afford....much more and someone will be getting a sweet deal on the 50.......
NM space port - 1 days drive?? 5 days from here :-(A little reassurance would be nice....Maxton is only a 4 hour tow for me......That's about all I can afford....much more and someone will be getting a sweet deal on the 50.......
NM space port - 1 days drive?? 5 days from here :-(
I've seen some mention of a place near Kinston, NC. Is this the Global Transpark ? This facility is funneling taxpayer money down the crapper and by projection will be entirely bankrupt by sometime in 2012. The runway was extended to 11,500', but too late after GATT and NAFTA. Some folks down here still run the custom "GTP###" license tags-I don't know why. They ought to be open to weekend carnivals, worm races or anything to help recover something for us dear taxpayers.You are right, the Global Transpark has been a total flop, except for some midnight CIA flights transporting terrorist to Gitmo. There are some aviation businesses there associated with the new Air Force tanker, but you would think there would be pleanty of open time to use the place.
Here is another one to drool over.......asphalt poem
North auxillary airfield. North, SC
Here is another one to drool over.......asphalt poem
North auxillary airfield. North, SC
Actually probably not a bad idea, it is owned by the military, so even if we did get to use it we could be thrown out at any time. It does not look like it is used as an active airport, just for training.
Here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Auxiliary_Airfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Auxiliary_Airfield)
When I was the Solo Director for the South Carolina Region SCCA back in the early 80's we conducted SOLO II events at North Air Force Auxiliary Airfield, SC but when the DELTA Forces started to conduct maneuvers there and then they constructed a dirt landing strip for the C-17 we could no longer conduct events there. It is owned by the U.S. Air Force and is used primarily for C-17 Globemaster III training by the 437th Airlift Wing and its Air Force Reserve "Associate" unit, the 315th Airlift Wing, at Charleston Air Force Base. Additional "bare base" operations are also conducted by the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw Air Force Base and the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire Air National Guard Station. Other units can utilize North with prior coordination with the 437 AW. The 437th Civil Engineering Squadron (437 CES) of the 437th Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB maintains a detachment to maintain and operate the airfield. The only permanently assigned personnel are 10 USAF firefighters and one civilian grounds keeper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Auxiliary_Airfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Auxiliary_Airfield)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Northafaux-21jan1994.jpg)
Here is a link to a more current view on Google Maps;
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=North+Auxilary+field,+sc&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.160552,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=North+Auxilary+field,&hnear=South+Carolina&ll=33.608508,-81.079016&spn=0.017013,0.038581&t=k&z=15 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=North+Auxilary+field,+sc&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.160552,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=North+Auxilary+field,&hnear=South+Carolina&ll=33.608508,-81.079016&spn=0.017013,0.038581&t=k&z=15)
I no longer have any contacts for North Air Force Auxiliary Airfield. They have a festival in North, SC every year that we used to coincide the SCCA events with http://www.woodford-sc.com/f_schedule.html (http://www.woodford-sc.com/f_schedule.html)
Everybody would love a venue in their backyard, but it gets expensive for racers like myself to travel 1,000 miles to Maxton. I would mind seeing several different Venues and a rotating schedule to attract more people to the sport. Some months it would be a short trip, some months a little longer.