Nervino Airport is a public
airport
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located one mile (1.6 km) east of
Beckwourth, serving
Plumas County
Plumas County () is a county in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,790. The county seat is Quincy, and the only incorporated city is Portola. The largest community in the county is ...
,
California
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,
United States
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. The airport is mostly used for
general aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...
. It is used for the area's annual fly-in breakfast.
Facilities
Nervino Airport covers and has one
runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...
:
* Runway 8/26: 4,651 x 75 ft (1,418 x 23 m), surface:
asphalt
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External links
Airports in Plumas County, California
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