Flying to Victorville

Firefighting Jumbos

Omega DC-10 Tanker

The Boneyard at Victorville

Drones at Grey Butte

KVCV Victorville Airport, Ca

   This is a neat airport.  It's the former George Air Force Base. and in1992, was changed to Southern California Logistics Airport.   There is a huge airliner boneyard here, and it's also home the the famous Tanker 910, firefighting airliner seen on the news dropping retardant on forest fires.   The tower (who sounded very bored and lonely) had me join the downwind for runway 21.   You are flying right towards a hill on the left downwind for this runway.   The runway is so long, we just did a 180 on the taxiway exit after landing and departed again using the rest of the runway.   Brian got some great shots of the boneyard on the right downwind of runway 21.
  Going home from here there were active Predator (Reaper) drones operating at the (private) Grey Butte and El Mirage airports just west of here.  You can see them on the runway if you look close at the pics.  The runway says in giant yellow letters "No trespassing, Unsafe for landing".