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{{Infobox Airport
| name = Pahute Mesa Airstrip
| image = Pahute-Mesa-Airport-Diagram.png
| ICAO = 
| FAA = L23
| type = Private
| owner = 
| operator = [[United States Department of Energy]]/Nevada
| city-served = 
| location = [[Mercury, Nevada]]
| elevation-f = 5,068
| elevation-m = 1,545
| website = 
| r1-number = 18/36
| r1-length-f = 5,800
| r1-length-m = 1,768
| r1-surface = [[Asphalt concrete|Asphalt]]
| footnotes = Source: [[Federal Aviation Administration]]<ref name=FAA>{{FAA-airport|ID=L23|use=PR|own=PU|site=13089.61*A}}, effective 2007-10-25</ref>
}}

'''Pahute Mesa Airstrip''' {{Airport codes|||L23}} is a private-use [[airport]] located {{convert|31|mi}} northwest of the [[central business district]] of [[Mercury, Nevada|Mercury]], in [[Nye County, Nevada|Nye County]], [[Nevada]], [[United States]].<ref name=FAA /> The airport is owned by the [[United States Department of Energy]].

== History ==
Originally built in 1941 as an emergency landing strip for [[United States Army Air Corps|Army Air Corps]] fighters, the airstrip was expanded in 1968 to allow transport aircraft to bring test materials and supplies to projects at Areas 19 and 20. Permission to land must be obtained in advance from the US Department of Energy.<ref>[http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/historical/DOE_MA0518.pdf US Department of Energy. Terrence R. Fehner, F. G. Gosling. ''Origins of the Nevada Test Site''. pp 21. (December 2000)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830054900/http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/historical/DOE_MA0518.pdf |date=2010-08-30 }}</ref>

== Facilities ==
Pahute Mesa Airstrip covers an area of {{convert|35|acre}} which contains one [[Asphalt concrete|asphalt]] paved [[runway]] designated 18/36 and measuring {{convert|5800|x|100|ft|lk=on}}.<ref name=FAA /> The runway had numbers with both ends, but it is now marked with "X" on either end.

A small ramp area allows planes and helicopters to park at the airstrip. Beside three small hangars, there are no other permanent structures at the airstrip.

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{US-airport-minor|L23}}

[[Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Nevada]]
[[Category:Airports in Nevada]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Nye County, Nevada]]
[[Category:Transportation in Nye County, Nevada]]


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