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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Strange Airports
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 17:08:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 17:08:27 1985
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Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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Another spooky airport (what a choice of adjective!) is Pinal
County Airpark (MZJ), formerly Marana Airpark, in southern Arizona.

My student "long cross country" included a stop at MZJ.  I hadn't
heard about MZJ, and I guess my instructor hadn't either.  Anyway,
I haven't been back since (8 years).

MZJ is "home base" for Evergreen International Airlines, a "charter
airline" which hotly denies any relationship with a certain Government
agency.  Even so, to this day MZJ has a TACAN and no VOR, and I've
never seen another "municipal airport" with active guard stations at
the entrance.

Anyway, the ramp at the airport is covered with various models of
jetliners, sporting the "colors" of a number of airlines, and with
all of the windows shrouded on the inside.  There are no FBO's, and
no services of any kind (not even restrooms or telephones).

I wouldn't suggest landing at MZJ.  Besides, they also have a legit
activity these days: after a routine training flight from Davis-Monthan
AFB crashed into the U of Arizona, killing a few people, the USAF now
does much of their D-M flight training at MZJ (there is a
weekday/daytime-only military control tower at MZJ now).
-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug