{"id":796,"date":"2010-07-25T16:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2010-07-25T16:57:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T00:57:55","slug":"hesperia-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Hesperia (CA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I’d written about flying to Hesperia Airport<\/a> before, but it seems like I didn’t.\u00a0 I flew there again today, so I’ll write about it now.<\/p>\n

Hesperia is the airport in a fairly small desert town north of the Inland Empire.\u00a0 The town is north of Lake Arrowhead and sort of along the way to Barstow.\u00a0 It was growing pretty rapidly during the housing boom.\u00a0 The airport is used primarily by the Mercy Air air ambulance folks, but there are hangars and some based planes there as well.\u00a0 There is also an inexpensive fuel pit and a restaurant.\u00a0 The restaurant is what drew me in there, of course.<\/p>\n

I’d been out to Hesperia once many years ago looking for a restaurant that I’d heard of, but it was closed.\u00a0 The fellow working the local FBO offered to share his sandwich with me, which was kind, but I didn’t take him up on it.\u00a0 I saw from our friends at AirNav <\/a>that there was indeed a new restaurant there, and tried it out.<\/p>\n

The restaurant itself is a classic airport cafe: sandwiches, burgers, and breakfasts.\u00a0 Everything I’ve had there is really tasty and the staff is very friendly and helpful.\u00a0 It’s a good fly-in joint.<\/p>\n

The field itself is kind of small.\u00a0 There’s ample runway length, but it’s kind of tucked away and there’s not a lot around the airport.\u00a0 It feels very close to the houses and highway nearby. It’s also in the high desert, so it can be windy and is higher than it might seem.\u00a0 When I was there today, the density altitude was in the 6000′ range, and it was very noticeable on takeoff.\u00a0 The wind was gusty though only 10 knots or so.<\/p>\n

I took a few pictures.\u00a0 I love the airport restaurant sign, and found a Cessna labeled with “Realtor.”\u00a0 I have no idea why you’d need to label a plane with that, but there must be a reason.\u00a0 For someone.<\/p>\n\n\t\t