| Pegasus Field | |||
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| IATA: none – ICAO: NZPG | |||
| Summary | |||
| Location | McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 18 ft / 5 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 15/33 | 10,000 | 3,048 | Ice |
| Source: DAFIF [1][2] | |||
Pegasus Field (ICAO: NZPG) is the farthest south of McMurdo Station's three frozen airstrips. Located near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, this blue ice runway is used for wheeled aircraft which can not land at the busier Williams Field runway, which is snow instead of the hard ice like at Pegasus Field. Pegasus Field is named after a C-121 Lockheed Constellation christened "Pegasus" which is still visible in the snow there. On October 8, 1970, the "Pegasus" crashed in bad weather. No one on board was injured. However, the plane remains and gives this place its name.
References
- ^ Airport information for NZPG at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for NZPG at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.
External links
- The McMurdo "Pegasus Site" from "Airfields on Antarctic Glacier Ice" by Malcolm Mellor and Charles Swithinbank, CRREL 1989.
- Lockheed Aircraft R7V-1 / R7V-1P / C-121J "Constellation" "Connie"
- Installation of runway-Pegasus
- Runway Project Clears the Way for Improved Antarctic Airlift, National Science Foundaton. February 20, 2002.
- Current weather for NZPG at NOAA/NWS
