If posting about a historical accident, you must include a link to a place to read more about the accident (such as the official report or a Wikipedia page). Duplicate discussion or link posts will be removed. Scroll through to see if your topic was recently posted. Please respect these rules (Not limited to):ĭon't post Mega or Google Drive links to episodes (hint: middleman links)ĭon't make duplicate posts. However, there is a continued focus on the air crash investigation shows and that will continue to be the primary focus of this subreddit. It is a place for people to discuss past air crash investigations along with current investigations. This is a community of people who want to watch or are interested in the air crash investigation shows. Along with other links dealing with air crash investigations. Renovations completed and the new city hall opened in 2007.We provide links to Air Crash Investigation/Mayday/Air Disasters and other similarly named shows. Relocating to airport land allowed the city to counter rising lease costs at their old location near Al-Tahoe. Beginning in 2006, the airport’s former commercial airline terminal building was renovated and converted into a new city hall and administrative services office for the City of South Lake Tahoe. Despite the tower’s closure, the airport continues to serve general aviation traffic using self-announce procedures for uncontrolled airports. Unable to find replacement funding, the South Lake Tahoe city council voted to close the airport’s Air Traffic Control Tower on October 1, 2004. Due to budget cuts in 2001, the FAA ceased funding on-site weather observers who had also served as the airport’s air traffic controllers. The ApOAG edition lists nonstop flights from Burbank, Fresno, Los Angeles, Oakland, Orange County, Reno, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose and Truckee, CA. According to the Official Airline Guide, six regional and commuter airlines were serving Lake Tahoe in spring 1981 including Air Sierra, Aspen Airways, Cal Sierra Airlines, Golden Gate Airlines, Golden West Airlines and Great Sierra Airlines with a combined total of up to 24 flights a day. Several aviation magazines routinely list KTVL in the top 10 USA General Aviation airports to visit.īeginning in 1962 it had a few airline flights: the first were on Futura Airlines, an intrastate airline, and on Paradise Airlines, both flying Lockheed L-049 Constellations. The airport can be challenging with unpredictable weather and harsh terrain but, still an amazing airport to fly at.
The rapidly rising terrain forms a restricting funnel that can trap the unwary pilot flying a marginally performing aircraft southbound. There are mountains off the south end of the runway that tower up to more than 10,000 feet MSL. Its single runway (18-36) is 8,544 feet long by 150 feet wide. Located on the south end of Lake Tahoe, the airport is located 6,264 feet above mean sea level (MSL). Lake Tahoe Airport (IATA: TVL, ICAO: KTVL, FAA LID: TVL) is a public airport three miles southwest of South Lake Tahoe, in El Dorado County, California.