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Los Angeles-Salt Lake Airway

This site provides historical information only, do not use for navigation purposes. 

This Section of the Route is confusing and will take some time to figure it out!

Changing the airway from Los Angeles-Salt Lake airway, Los Angeles-Las Vegas section to Los Angeles-Amarillo airway, Los Angeles-Las Vegas section and the re-numbering has left me very confused as to how to number this portion of my site.  I am thinking about it.

Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section

SECTION MAP BCN # NAME

GPS

PID CITY
24 24 LA-SL Arden 36.035947, -115.312720 GR1964 Blue Diamond Se
23 23B LA-SL Wilson Summit 35.939636, -115.425814 FS1224 Cottonwood Pass
22 22 LA-SL Enterprise / Sloan 35.953291, -115.179291   Sloan
21 21 LA-SL Jean 35.750000, -115.350000   Jean
20 20 LA-SL Windmill 35.355415, -115.788350   Windmill / Calada
19 19 LA-SL Mescal Range 35.483997, -115.553314 FS1262 Mescal Range
18 18 LA-SL Kelly (Cima) Kingston 35.563333, -115.713611   Kingston / Kelly / Cima / Valley Wells
18 18 LA-SL Silver Lake 35.337380, -116.091649   Silver Lake / Baker
17 17 LA-SL Solomons Knob 35.399638, -115.831278 FS1273 Solomons Knob
17 17 LA-SL Baker 35.276381, -116.064445   Baker
16 16 LA-SL Baker 35.271811, -116.065499 FT1486 Baker
15 15 LA-SL Dunn 35.073544, -116.389115   Dunn
13 13 LA-SL Dunn 35.077582, -116.391882 FT1501 Dunn
13 13 LA-SL Harvard 34.953333, -116.688333   Harvard
10 10B LA-SL Daggett DOCILF 34.854167, -116.788889   Daggett
10 10A LA-SL Lenwood 34.868056, -117.1   Lenwood
9 9 LA-SL Barstow 34.824034, -117.016564 EV1064 Barstow
8 8 LA-SL Helendale 34.735547, -117.310505 EV2865 Helendale
7 7 LA-SL Hesperia      
6 6 LA-SL Hespernia DOCILF      
5D 5D LA-SL      
5C 5C LA-SL      
5B 5B LA-SL      
49 mile        
5A 5A LA-SL      
4 4 LA-SL Fontana DOCILF      
3 3 LA-SL      
1 1 LA-SL      

 

Alternate Route abt 1934

  7 7 LA-SL 34.683651, -117.530326 EV3876 Shadow Mountains 
6 6 LA-SL 34.596152, -117.860046 EV3889 Lovejoy Buttes
5 5B LA-SL 34.525724, -118.164179 EW7086 Ritter Ridge
5 LA-SL 5 34.617059, -118.087343 EW7072 Palmdale
5 5 LA-SL Palmdale DOCILF  34.617059, -118.087343   Palmdale
5 Palmdale Regional Airport 34.636146, -118.089116   Palmdale
4 4A LA-SL 34.500783, -118.282999 EW7127 Sleepy Valley
4 4LA-SL Saugus 34.444809, -118.439543 EW7336 Mint Canyon
1 1 LA-SL Vail Field, Montebello 33.999980, -118.139983   Montebello

Airway Bulletin No. 1, September 1, 1931, page 34

Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section
Las Vegas-New Harmony Section

Airway Bulletin No. 1, September 1, 1931, page 35

New Harmony-Lynndyl Section
Lynndyl-Salt Lake Section

Air Commerce Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 12, December 15, 1931 page 309

Los Angeles, Calif.  (LA-SL and LA-A airways):  Beacon light and intermediated field sites on the Los Angeles-Salt Lake City airway lying between Los Angeles and Daggett, Calif., are now designated aids on the Los Angeles-Amarillo airway, which, with certain changes made on the Los Angeles-Las Vegas section of the old Los Angeles-Salt Lake City airway have resulted in the renumbering of the following sites:

Old Site Number New Site Number
Los Angeles-Salt Lake City, old course (Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section): Los Angeles-Amarillo, new course (Los Angeles-Daggett Section):
1 2
3

3

4 4
5A 5A
49 Mile Blinker 53 Mile Blinker
5B 5B
6A 5C
6B 5D
6 6
  Los Angeles-Salt Lake City, new course (Daggett-Las Vegas Sections)
145 Mile Blinker 128 Mile Blinker
15 13
16 14
176 Mile Blinker 158 Mile Blinker
17 16
19 17
200 Mile Blinker 182 Mile Blinker
20 18
21 19
22 20
23 21
242 Mile Blinker 223 Mile Blinker
25 22

Sites Nos. 8, 9, 10, and 12, on the old Los Angeles-Salt Lake City airway route which are soon to be discontinued are omitted from the foregoing list.

Airway Bulletin No. 1, September 1, 1932, page 38

Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section
Las Vegas-New Harmony Section

Airway Bulletin No. 1, September 1, 1932, page 39

New Harmony-Lynndyl Section
Lynndyl-Salt Lake Section

Air Commerce Bulletin Vol. 4, No.6, September 15, 1932, page 159

Upland, Calif. (LA-A Site No. 3)
Red course lights operated in conjunction with the 24-inch clear rotating airway beacon light maintained by the Department of Commerce 1 1/2 miles northeast of Upland, flash characteristic dot, dot, dot, dash (..._).

CAM Routes

CAM # 1  |  CAM # 2  |  CAM # 3  |  CAM # 4  |  CAM # 5  |  CAM # 6  |  CAM # 7  |  CAM # 8  | CAM # 9  | CAM # 10
CAM #11  |  CAM #12  |  CAM #13  |  CAM #14  |  CAM #15  |  CAM #16  |  CAM #17  |  CAM #18  | CAM #19  | CAM #20
CAM #21  |  CAM #22  |  CAM #23  |  CAM #24  |  CAM #25  |  CAM #26  |  CAM #27  |  CAM #28  | CAM #29  | CAM #30
CAM #31 CAM #32  |  CAM #33  |  CAM # 34

Arrows and Beacons may be on private property, DO NOT TRESSPASS!
This is a work in progress and will be constantly updated as new information is found.
Beacons arrraged the same as airway map.
DOCILF= Department of Commerce Intermediate Field
LA-SL = Los Angeles-Salt Lake
LA-A = Los Angeles-Amarillo