Mountain View and Pahoa landing strips

[hikatz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIoKwJdhWw

Watching the KITV Video, did not realize how narrow the landing strips were!

[2liveque]

Top of the Stainback HWY....near the north Kulani turnoff was also an air strip at one time.

[mella l]

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Originally posted by terracore

I was doing some google earth stuff and saw "Moutain View Landing Strip" which reportedly has an 1800 foot runway. While researching (but finding little information on it):

https://nfdc.faa.gov/nfdcApps/airportLoo...egory=nasr&airportId=HI23

I also found a reference to a Pahoa landing strip... but no further information. Anybody anything about these airstrips?

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Perhaps that is the subdivision where the 20 acre ag lots are Kopua Farm Lots would have a nice road. I'm not sure about a landing strip but by the description this sounds about right.

mella l

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bytheSEA

[Midnight Rambler]

I believe the coordinates at that FAA link for the Mountain View airstrip are wrong. If you look on either the satellite or USGS topo maps there's nothing at that point or immediately around it. There is one at the mauka end of Mountain View village on the south side of the highway, at the end of South Pszyk Road, which is clearly visible on both; it's about 1400 feet long. But there seems to be a building smack in the middle of it now. Or perhaps just a shipping container, but there are buildings at both ends, which would make it tough to land even if you took out the one in the middle.

There is also the one at Airstrip Road (between Kuaaina and South) in Kurtistown, which is 1800 feet and could be cleared out by removing a few trees.

Based on the directions at the FAA link and an icon on Google Earth, I believe the "Pahoa Landing Strip" is at 19.514829, -154.963260. Unfortunately this is between Pahoa and HPP, on the north side of the current flow. Anyone know what the big circular clearing is next to it? Looks like Uncle Robert's alien communication system...

[kalakoa]

Pahoa airstrip is just before the water station on 130.

Circular clearing is for a big antenna. I suspect this is a waypoint beacon.

[Lee M-S]

I heard a few years ago that the owners of the Mt. View strip actively discouraged its use and possibly distributed disinformation about it to keep people away.

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[flyingsurfer]

bananahead: would like to know more about native plants.So I can plant some. Live in HPP.

[missydog1]

I read that the sugar cane landing strips were (mostly) decommissioned after operations shut down. There might be a list of such airstrips on record, should be. I guess they can't be used by civilian pilots once that shutdown happens, but the government could decide to open them again.

There was a huhu about a tour company trying to use one of the sugar landing strips on Hamakua side to land helicopters, and there was a whole debate with DLNR or some agency about whether or not it was still viable, is the reason I saw info on it.

Kathy

[missydog1]

Here's an HTH article that gives insight into the types of considerations the County gave on whether a strip was grandfathered or considered viable:

http://hilo.hawaiitribune-herald.com/sec...rator.html

Read it and you'll see even the Planning Director went back and forth on it more than once.

ed to add: clearly if the County wants to put them back in service for emergency use and to serve the public, that would be much easier than approving a private tour company to impact neighbors with helicopters for commercial recreational purpose. It seems to me that small plane traffic could be really helpful.

There are plenty of islands in the Pacific that are only accessible by either small planes or the monthly container ship. Too bad there is nowhere for a barge to unload in South Puna, similar to Kawaihae, which is not a large harbor at all, and handles military transports. And look at the old Mahukona harbor the sugar companies used.

Kathy

[Hotzcatz]

The kids throw raves at some of them if there's any kind of access. On another one they use it as a drag strip which does keep them off the rest of the roads. One is sort of a practice area for a local garage band. It's off far enough that they can be loud and noisy and only annoy the nearby cows. So old air strips are still sort of in use, although not as an airstrip.

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