Wishon airport bass Lake

[Mibrew]

1958

[Raider]

Is there still a place to land planes at Bass Lake ?

[MtnEagle]

Only if you have a plane with Pontoons...

Wishon Airport is now a memory buried under Condo's...

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[Chem101]

I remember the Wishon Airport. One of my friend's father had a business down in Pomona and would commute in his aiplane. I remember him buzzing over the house which was the signal to come pick him up. I heard it was a dangerous airport to land on. If you missed the landing coming in from the lake and didn't have a powerful enough engine to climb out, you had a very bad day. Several fatalities and law suits shut the strip down.

[Dodie]

Half of that airport is on the other side of the highway and I am sure if there was a fire up there, you would see helicopters landing there if the overhead wires are not a problem. Dodie

[John @ 3300ft.]

Before they built the condos, they did something to the "strip" to keep planes from landing there since it still showed up on nav charts.
Does anybody remember what they did?

[Coldwolf]

John, didn't they park boat trailers on it?

[only1alphafemale]

Yes, I beieve they did. That prevented the landings. Is the Auberry landing strip still there? Other than the heliport on Chepo and the other heliport of off Central Camp road.
Lol I was horseback riding there on the heliport years ago with another friend...we had just started down the back side when a helicopter flew over our head very low and landed. Well this was NOT common so we doubled back to see what was up. There were five men crawling out of the helicopter. The men in the copter..started pointing and taking pictures. The smaller of the men walked up to my horse making a complement on her, so I climbed off, and told him to saddle up.
This provided me with a bit of time to go to my riding buddy and tell him that the man on my horse, was Steve Perry, the lead singer for Journey.
He didnt have clue who I was talking about as he only listenned CW. lol..
While Steve Perry rode my horse around in the big circle of the heliport, one of his compaions walked over to me and asked me if I knew who he was. I told him I did.
(my co-rider who was on a 16.5 gelding, rode over and peeked into the helicopter. He was pretty curious about all of this. He rode back over and told me he had never seen so many different colored liquor bottles before in his life. They were all pretty drunk except for the man who walked over to me and asked me if I knew the man who was riding my horse. I told him I did. He told me they were on their way down south, just finishing up a vacation they had been on. That Steve Perry, the man on my horse needed a break. They had been on vacation and were returning down south ( dont remember where they were going)
He took a few photos of him on my horse, it was pretty comical...
So if you ever see a Steve Perry, Journey Album, with him on a red appaloosa, Thats my hores...lol..(let me know please ?)
Which just goes to show you, you can never predict what is going to happen in these mountains around here...!

[tocools]

thats was so cool to read

[John @ 3300ft.]

Originally posted by Coldwolf:
John, didn't they park boat trailers on it?
I'm sure they did that, but I think I remember they dug some berms or pits in the strip to REALLY discourage landings... Anybody remember something like that?

[ginpole]

yes, after they ripped up the blacktop. Before they closed the Bass Lake airport there was work done on Malum Ridge across from Central Camp Road on Road 274 south of the dam to replace it.

[ArcticFlier]

Sounds pretty similar to what was done to Meigs Field in Chicago. The mayor http://oakhurstforums.com/icon/freak.gifhad some guys go out and basically cut up the runway, preventing takeoffs and landings. http://oakhurstforums.com/icon/rant420.gif

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[father guido]

Originally posted by John @ 3300ft.:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Coldwolf:
John, didn't they park boat trailers on it?
I'm sure they did that, but I think I remember they dug some berms or pits in the strip to REALLY discourage landings... Anybody remember something like that? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep, several 4' berms from the small shack that used to sit there on the north side of the runway across the broken asphalt towards the south side of the runway. One thing I distinctly remember is only seeing water up to the berms once or twice.