Pixley Airport

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

Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

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][6]

Pixley airport's FAA location identifier was Q90 until 2003,[7] when it was changed to P27.[8] It remained in published FAA records until 2008, when it was listed as "public use" and noted as "closed indefinitely".[1]

## Facilities and aircraft

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Pixley Airport covered an area of [9]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

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1. ^ a b c d e "P27 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective July 31, 2008". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.
2. ^ Remedial Action Plan Report, Harmon Field, Pixley, California, May 1995 prepared by Canonie Environmental for County of Tulare.
3. ^ "Pixley Airport / Harmon Field, Pixley, CA". Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Archived from the original on August 7, 2013. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
4. ^ "Cleanup Costs For Tainted Pixley Airport ..." The Fresno Bee. March 29, 1987.
5. ^ Collins, Aaron (November 17, 2004). "Pixley Airport Still Toxic After 15+ Year Cleanup Attempt". Valley Voice Newspaper.
6. ^ Doan, Lynn (May 9, 2005). "Tulare County closer to cleaning airport". Visalia Times-Delta. Archived from the original on July 24, 2012.
7. ^ "Q90 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective September 4, 2003". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on October 2, 2003.
8. ^ "P27 - Pixley Airport - FAA information effective August 5, 2004". FAA data republished by AirNav. Archived from the original on August 21, 2004.
9. ^ 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.

## External links

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* Aerial image as of June 1994 from USGS The National Map