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Manzanar Airport Site, California
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The old Manzanar Airport Site is located east of the Manzanar site and Route 395. The runways are sometimes used for automobile racing time trials. The annual Lone Pine Time Trials, a high-speed motorsport event that celebrates it's 44th anniversary in May, 2014.
The airfield consisted of two 4,800 foot long concrete runways, one of which has a parallel taxiway. Various hangars, shops and operations buildings were situated along the outskirts. The airfield is located near the infamous Manzanar Relocation Camp; however, it apparently had no connection to the internment center.
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