13 SL-GF Flatiron Creek

GPS: 42.692760, -112.597683

Location / Airway

Location / Name

UTAH: Power County

13 SL-GF Flatiron Creek, site No. 13 on the Salt Lake-Great Falls Airway
AKA 13 SL-GF Midnight Creek for a brief period until it's real designation was determined.


GPS: 42.692760, -112.597683

Contract Air Mail

C.A.M. #26 Salt Lake City-Great Falls
Salt Lake-Great Falls airway
Salt Lake-Pocatello Section

Operator

Contract made 30th day of December 1927 to Alfred Frank
Sub-contract made 6th day of April 1928 between Alfred Frank and National Parks Airways (Inc.)

Contributors Photos

Submitted by Greg Cobia and Kaarin Engelmann September 2017

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Observations and Notes

This site is located on an Indian Reservation.  You need permission from the tribal counsel to visit this site.  Please do not tresspass.  The third photo above is where the control shack for the beacon was located.  There is nothing left from it.  Many thanks to Greg and Kaarin for sharing their photos of this location.

Links

National Geodetic Survey Data Sheet PID NU0599

Described by Coast And Geodetic Survey 1938

9.8 Mi N From Pauline. 9.8 Miles North along the Schiller Road from Pauline, Power County, at air beacon control house, 13.4 feet north of the north side of the house, and 85 feet west of the centerline of the road. A standard disk, stamped E 179 1935 and set in the top of a concrete post.

Note-- additional description, at air beacon control house, 4.3 ft. north of the north side of the house, and 100 ft. SW of L of highway, and about 20 ft. E of the right bank of Bannock Creek.

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