About This File
FSX Scenery--California Forgotten and Abandoned Airfields. This is a small selection of abandoned and forgotten airfields and a small bonus in Owen's Valley. The airports included here include: Tunnel Meadows air camp, a forgotten grass strip in the Sierras southeast of Lone Pine dating back to the 1920s; Aero Traders Ocotillo, a dirt strip just a couple feet above sea level in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. The real deal is a boneyard with a collection of WWII aircraft parts; Manzanar/Inyo County airfield. A long-abandoned field built in the 20s, upgraded in 1942 for use as a fallback field in case of a Japanese invasion of California. The field was used to train pilots and to supply the internment camp at Manzanar. The field was ceded to Inyo County in 1947 and was abandoned by the county in 1952; Clark Dry Lake, a navy emergency strip serving a dive bombing and strafing target, also in Anza Borrego. I cannot guarantee the accuracy of this field, as the maps available don't specify a location besides the dry lakebed, and the runways were never well marked aside from an arrow formed from several stones. The lakebed this field was situated on was home to an experimental radio astronomy facility which operated from 1958 to 1985; Lansing Empire Ranch, a swanky horse ranch in Boulevard, the far southeastern corner of San Diego County.; I've also included upgrades for Borrego Valley airport and Ocotillo airport. You'll need Sidney Schwartze's small airstrip objects from the calclassic object library, the MAIW library from the MAIW website, and Jim Dhaenens's airport buildings from his excellent Lemoore scenery. By Aris Lazerson (Muir Air).
