Tonopah Airport (IATA: TPH, ICAO: KTPH, FAA LID: TPH) is a county-owned, public-use airport located seven nautical miles (13 km) east of the central business district of Tonopah, in Nye County, Nevada, United States.[1]

Tonopah Airport
USGS aerial image, 1999
IATA: TPH ICAO: KTPH FAA LID: TPH
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Nye County
Serves	Tonopah, Nevada
Elevation AMSL	5,430 ft / 1,655 m
Coordinates	38°03′37″N 117°05′12″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 15/33 7,161 2,183 Asphalt 11/29 6,196 1,889 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 12,727 Based aircraft 6
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

It incorporates the former Tonopah Army Airfield, a World War II installation where many units of the USAAF, such as the 357th Fighter Group, trained. The 357th (whose pilots included Chuck Yeager and Bud Anderson among others) later flew P-51 Mustang fighters against the German Luftwaffe, from their base at Leiston, on the south-eastern coast of Britain.

Facilities and aircraft

Tonopah Airport covers an area of 3,820 acres (1,550 ha) at an elevation of 5,430 feet (1,655 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 15/33 is 7,161 by 80 feet (2,183 x 24 m) and 11/29 is 6,196 by 50 feet (1,889 x 15 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending November 30, 2009, the airport had 12,727 aircraft operations, an average of 34 per day: 74% general aviation, 25% air taxi, and 2% military. At that time six aircraft were based here: 5 single-engine and 1 helicopter.[1]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tonopah Airport.

• "Diagram of Tonopah Airport (TPH)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. from Nevada DOT
• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective May 19, 2022
• FAA Terminal Procedures for TPH, effective May 19, 2022

• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for TPH
  • AirNav airport information for KTPH
  • ASN accident history for TPH
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures

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