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Picacho Auxiliary Army Airfield #1

Friday, 3rd June 2005 by James

Picacho Auxiliary Army Airfield #1 is today used by helicopters of the AZ National Guard, based at the nearby Silverbell Army Heliport, and consists of six short paved runways (they don’t need to be very long as helicopters, not planes, land there). You can see a chopper parked at the top of the light brown strip.

The Airfield was built during WW2 as a satellite of the nearby Marana Army Airfield (now Pinal Airpark) and if you zoom out a little bit you can make out the original landing mat at a 45 degree angle to the new heliport. The former runways are clearest to the east of the heliport and run north-south and east-west.

More information about the airfield is available here.

Picacho Auxiliary Army Airfield #1

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2 Responses to 'Picacho Auxiliary Army Airfield #1'

  1. 1. ozjmu says: June 3rd, 2005 at 9:37 pm

    Do those remind anybody else of DIMM slots?

  2. 2. James says: June 3rd, 2005 at 10:16 pm

    LOL! I wondered where I’d seen these before ;-)

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