Grey Butte Field Airport

Gray Butte Field Airport is a private airport located 25 miles east of Palmdale, California. It is owned by General Atomics of San Diego. Its primary use is the development and testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for the United States Military and the United States Government.

Gray Butte Field Airport Gray Butte Auxiliary Airfield
2006 USGS airphoto
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: 04CA
Summary
Serves	Palmdale, California
Elevation AMSL	3,028 ft / 923 m
Coordinates	34°33′59″N 117°40′13″W
Map
04CA Location of Gray Butte Field Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 08/26 8,000 2,438 Asphalt

Grey Butte Field Airport, has a sister site located at El Mirage Field.

Aircraft to have been known to be operated and developed at this facility include:

• General Atomics Avenger

• General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper

• Predator B

• Predator XP

• Gray Eagle

• Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER)

• MQ-9B

History

During World War II, the airport was designated as Gray Butte Auxiliary Airfield (No 4), and was an auxiliary training airfield for Victorville Army Airfield, California.

The wartime runways are abandoned and now used by General Atomics for their UAV testing.

The airfield was assigned the FAA location identifier GVM, but on July 26, 2012, the airport's location identifier was changed to 04CA..[1]

See also

• California World War II Army Airfields

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

1. "Location Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved 2012-12-19.

• Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: California - Southern Palmdale area

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