History
The original airfield, known as Furnace Creek Emergency Landing Field was built around 1942 by the War Department. It served as an emergency landing field for Army and Navy military aircraft. It was abandoned after the end of the war in 1945.
The current airfield was opened in May 1953, one mile west of the wartime emergency landing strip along Inyo County route 190, adjacent to the Sunshine Campground. The wartime airfield is visible in aerial imagery and is unused.
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