Lone Pine Airport
Jim F
03/15/25 03:55 AM
For me, the Lone Pine Airport is located at Ground Zero of my primary interests in the Eastern Sierras. My family used the commercial service there many years ago.
In 1959 (for the 50th Anniversary of the Mt Whitney Summit Shelter), my Dad and I hiked the High Sierra Trail. At the conclusion of the hike, Bob White flew us back from Lone Pine to a airfield near Three Rivers. We then hitchhiked back to our 1950 Plymouth in Giant Forest.
The Bob White Flying Service operated out of Lone Pine for several decades. It would be nice to see the Lone Pine Airport "put back on the map." A fairly new outfit "Friends of the Lone Pine Airport" intends to do this. Their most recent fly in last October had nearly 100 aircraft participate.
Jim
