Grey Butte Field Airport
Private airport in California
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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 | |||||||||||
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| Serves | Palmdale, California | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,028 ft / 923 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°33′59″N 117°40′13″W | ||||||||||
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  04CA Location of Gray Butte Field Airport in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area  04CA Location of Gray Butte Field in California | |||||||||||
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Gray Butte Field Airport, has a sister site located at El Mirage Field.
Aircraft known to have been 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
- General Atomics XQ-67A
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]
