Crows Landing

[Huggyu2]

Crows Landing is the name of a former airstrip in Northern CA, right next to I-5. It is no longer listed in the gov't IFR Supp, and I believe it has been taken off the San Fran Sectional. What is it/was it? I seem to remember that NASA owned or used it, and that unmanned aircraft were flown out of there in the mid 90's. Looking at it while driving and flying by it seems to point that it is still well maintained. What's up with this airfield?

 

[TrafficInSight]

flew over it a few months ago, the runways are closed and there seems to be some sort of cleanup going on... you can find out more about it at www.airfields-freeman.com

 

[GVFlyer]

Crows Landing is the name of a former airstrip in Northern CA, right next to I-5. It is no longer listed in the gov't IFR Supp, and I believe it has been taken off the San Fran Sectional. What is it/was it? I seem to remember that NASA owned or used it, and that unmanned aircraft were flown out of there in the mid 90's. Looking at it while driving and flying by it seems to point that it is still well maintained. What's up with this airfield?

Former WWII Navy airfield. Went to joint Navy / NASA use in 1965. Functioned as a test facility for NASA Ames (this is where I learned about it), closed by NASA in 1999. Now belongs to Stanislaus County and is in the middle of a Navy/ EPA cleanup. No Aurora sitings there.

GV

 

[urflyingme?!]

C-V, you really fly the x-15?

 

[TrafficInSight]

C-V, you really fly the x-15?

looks like it says XV-15... quite a different animal... although still one to brag about

 

[GVFlyer]

C-V, you really fly the x-15?

No, I flew the XV-15, the precursor to the V-22 Osprey. You know, the tilt-rotor airplane where Bell has combined all the things that can go wrong with an airplane or helicopter into one place. At the time the first one crashed I was at NASA Ames. Dick Chaney was Secretary of Defence at the time and didn't like the Osprey, but couldn't kill it because there was some Osprey component supplier or manufacturer in just about every congressional district in the US. At first the cause of the crash was undetermined, but the NASA wags thought they had it figured out - Dick Chaney with a Stinger missile.

GV

 

[typhoonpilot]

Navy P-3s used to do a lot of pattern work there in the late 80s.

TP

 

[pilotyip]

Used to be a bounce field for NAS Moffett. C-54's in the 50's, A-1's, A-3's in the-60's, P-3's until Moffett closed in the early 90's.