PMD

Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport

ICAO KPMD34.6294°N 118.0850°W2,543 ft / 775 mMedium airport
On the map
SOFIA lands at Air Force Plant 42
NASA Photo by: Tony Landis · Public domain · Commons

Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport (IATA: PMD, ICAO: KPMD) is a medium airport in Palmdale, California, United States. It has 3 runways; the longest is 12,002 ft (3,658 m). In 2008 it handled 22 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
07/25086° / 266° · LIT
LENGTH12,002 ft3,658 mWIDTH200 ft61 mSURFACEConcrete
04/22052° / 232° · LIT
LENGTH12,001 ft3,658 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEConcrete
072/252
LENGTH6,000 ft1,829 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2005–2008
5K
59
12K
22K
05060708

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers22K (2008)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,405of 3,974 · #562 North America · #388 USLongest runway12,002 ft3,658 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=323of 29,823 · =75 North America · =65 USElevation2,543 ft775 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#6,794of 43,341 · #3,216 North America · #2,475 USRunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =81 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

5 channels
A/DJOSHUA APP/DEP124.550
ASOSASOS118.275
CTAFCTAF123.700
GNDGND121.900
TWRTWR123.700