Poso Airport
Poso Airport, also known as Poso-Kern County Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles east of the central business district of Famoso, in Kern County, California, United States. The airport is mostly used for general aviation.Facilities and aircraft
Poso-Kern County Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 635 feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,000 by 60 feet. For the 12-month period ending March 17, 2010, the airport had 1,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 83 per month.History
Built as the Poso Auxiliary Field or Poso Field Aux No. 6 was a satellite training airfield of Minter Field named for the city of Poso, California that was renamed Famoso, California. Poso Auxiliary Field covered 400 acres and was used for training World War 2 pilots in landing and take off. The US Army built a 3,000 by 3,000 landing mat airstrip in 1942. The Vultee BT-13 Valiant and Boeing-Stearman Model 75 were the most common plane used for training at Poso Auxiliary Field and the Minter Army Airfields. Poso Auxiliary Field was closed on October 8, 1946. In 1950 the west of runway became the Famoso Raceway, a dragstrip. The east side became Poso Airport.
