LA/Palmdale Regional Airport
Palmdale Regional Airport is an airport in Palmdale, California, United States. The city of Palmdale took over the airport at the end of 2013, managing it via the Palmdale Airport Authority.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in California, United States of America
- Also known as: “KPMD”, “Palmdale Airport”, “Palmdale Regional Airport”, “Palmdale Regional Airport/USAF Plant 42”, “PMD”, “U.S. Air Force Plant 42”, and “USAF Plant 42 / Palmdale Regional Airport”
Places of Interest
Highlights include United States Air Force Plant 42 and Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center.
United States Air Force Plant 42
Military installation
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
United States Air Force Plant 42 is a classified aircraft manufacturing plant owned by the United States Air Force in the Antelope Valley, about 60 miles from downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center
Building
The Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center is an air traffic control center located in Palmdale, California, United States. Located adjacent to United States Air Force Plant 42 and the Palmdale Regional Airport, it is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers operated by the United States Federal Aviation Administration.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Palmdale and Desert View Highlands.
Palmdale
Photo: Wrk3, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palmdale is a city in the far north of Los Angeles County in the Antelope Valley region of the Mojave Desert in Southern California.
Desert View Highlands
Locality
Desert View Highlands is an unincorporated community and census designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 2,676 at the 2020 census, up from 2,360 at the 2010 census. It is surrounded by the City of Palmdale.
Lancaster
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lancaster is a city in far northern Los Angeles County in Southern California, 8 miles from the Kern County line.
LA/Palmdale Regional Airport
- Categories: airport, military installation, and transportation
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.62673° or 34° 37′ 36″ northLongitude
-118.08877° or 118° 5′ 20″ westElevation
2,533 feet (772 metres)IATA airport code
PMDICAO airport code
KPMDFAA airport code
PMDOpen location code
8563JWG6+MFOpenStreetMap ID
way 135245202OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
military=airfieldGeoNames ID
7250031Wikidata ID
Q6456919
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“LA/Palmdale Regional Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Palmdale United States Air Force Plant 42 Airport”
- Chinese: “棕榈谷区域机场”
- Chinese: “棕榈谷地区机场”
- Chinese: “棕櫚谷地區機場”
- Dutch: “Palmdale Regional Airport”
- French: “aéroport régional LA/Palmdale”
- French: “Aéroport régional LA/Palmdale”
- French: “PMD”
- Indonesian: “KPMD”
- Indonesian: “PMD”
- Japanese: “Palmdale地域空港”
- Japanese: “パームデール地域空港”
- Navajo: “Atʼaʼ Yiltʼąąʼí Naazkaadi chidí naatʼaʼí ńdinibįįhígi”
- Persian: “KPMD”
- Persian: “PMD”
- Persian: “فرودگاه منطقه ای لا/پالمدال”
- Persian: “فرودگاه منطقهای لا/پالمدال”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Regional LA/Palmdale”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Regional LA Palmdale”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Regional LA/Palmdale”
- Swedish: “Palmdale Regional Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи мантақаий ло полмдол”
- Urdu: “پامڈیل ریجنل ہوائی اڈا”
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