Well, okay.

Quartzsite used to have an airport that was on aeronautical charts. Trouble is, it had a bit of a dogleg in the runway and a road crossed it. The story I heard is that a landing (or departing?) airplane hit a car that was crossing the runway as the plane was landing (or taking off). No one was hurt but the plane was damaged and the airport closed down.

Nowadays, there’s a dirt runway across the freeway and slightly west of that old airport site. It’s not on any chart, but it does have a few hangars and at least one windsock. And some planes that aren’t going anywhere soon, including this one.

Not something you see every day. (It’s a Lear jet.)

I have some video I’ll likely compile into something for YouTube when I get home. I’ll try to remember to link to it here.