What is the narrowest runway your RV has landed?

[zspivey]

Ted is right about Boone County. It is narrow. I have been in there twice. My daughter lives near there. It is the airport of choice when we visit our grandchildren. We were there the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I think the local pilots prefer the parallel grass strip. One of them was flying off the phase 1 test in a nice RV9A. He has not installed the wheel fairings. I watched him land on the grass just befor my wife and I departed.

[Vlad]

A friend of mine landed his RV-9A on 18 feet wide road last year. The air was still and thick (-25C) and the road was long enough for a hundred T&Gs.

Somewhere in Russia

[Caveman]

Originally Posted by BikePilot

Cool! Fantastic picture. I really like the paint on your plane too.

I've only flown there once and didn't see any military planes, but did see many civil planes of all shapes and sizes. The instructor I flew with arranged to land near our taxiway so we didn't have to drive around on the ground too much. I'm told the runway was built so huge so that it could serve as a shuttle alternative (don't know if that's true or not).

The shuttle has landed there on its piggyback 747. At least there was a pic in the restaraunt that showed it there.

I just got back from the Amarillo area again 20 minutes ago. I have an interest in exploring the old west battle grounds from the air and am currently hot on the trail of the Red River Indian Wars.

Thanks for the compliments Josh. Now we return you to the narrowest landing strip thread...

[steveKs.]

I dropped off a friend to pick up a Ag Tractor at a cropduster's strip where the wings of the 8 was wider and the edges were a six inch drop off....I stayed on my toes. The width didn't get my attention as much as the nonforgiving edges.
I do touch and goes on a county highway that is about 22 feet. It is in a area that is very sparsely populated and seldom used.

[tc1234c]

Originally Posted by zspivey

We were there the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Zack,

We did touch and go on Saturday morning (11/28). I did hear an RV reporting taxi. Since we did not have much time, we did not stop.

[zilik]

12 Feet wide. A private paved strip north of KDEN. One of our guys in a TW 6 got his tail wheel stuck in the mud trying to turn around after back taxiing.

[Hum]

This one keeps you on your toes when the grass is soggy

http://www.limerickflyingclub.com/ga...d_overhead.jpg

[JDRhodes]

Landed at Plattsburg, NY. It is a SAC B-52 base that has been converted to civil use. The runway was, I believe, 12,000 X 300 ft wide! They re-striped to to just 150 feet wide and just let the grass grow up on the left over 75 feet on each side.

The ramp - where they used to park rows and rows of B-52's was equally impressive. We were in a Citation and could have taken off in any direction from the ramp. Maybe 8,000 X 5,000?!


My runway is as wide as I care to mow it. Usually do 8 passes = 40 feet. What's the record on this thread? 18? Do I need to post a picture to break it?

Edit - 12? Now that's just crazy!

[molson309]

Neenah, WI (Brennand, 79C)- 20ft wide pavement. On the day I landed the RV-7A there the surrounding grass was extremely wet, so the incentive to stay on the asphalt was high, to say the least. At that time there were 3 windsocks around the runway, each was showing a different direction!

Looks like a RC strip from the air, figuring out where to flare is interesting due to the altered perspective.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/79C

Mark Olson N407V RV-7A ~600hrs

[zspivey]

Originally Posted by JDRhodes

Landed at Plattsburg, NY. It is a SAC B-52 base that has been converted to civil use. The runway was, I believe, 12,000 X 300 ft wide! They re-striped to to just 150 feet wide and just let the grass grow up on the left over 75 feet on each side.

The ramp - where they used to park rows and rows of B-52's was equally impressive. We were in a Citation and could have taken off in any direction from the ramp. Maybe 8,000 X 5,000?!


My runway is as wide as I care to mow it. Usually do 8 passes = 40 feet. What's the record on this thread? 18? Do I need to post a picture to break it?

Edit - 12? Now that's just crazy!

I was a navigator on tankers flying out of Plattsburg. That is the standard SAC runway.

We were on a fighter drag headed to the mideast. We took off out of Pease, another 300' by 11,000' runway. That time the tanker was loaded to 285,000 lbs. We still had the old J79 engines. Let's just say we go a much better view of the departure end of the runway than I ever want to see again.

There was also one like it at Clark in the Philippines. Flying C-130's out of Clark we always requested a midfield departure. The Herk did not need much more than 3500 ft. That is more to my liking.