Mariposa-Yosemite Airport is a public

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located four miles (6 km) west of the

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of Mariposa, in

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. It is owned by the County of Mariposa. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the FAA and

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, Mariposa-Yosemite Airport is assigned MPI by the FAA but the IATA assigned MPI to Mamitupo,

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Facilities and aircraft

Mariposa-Yosemite Airport covers an area of which contains one

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paved

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concrete ...

(8/26) measuring 3,306 x 60 ft (1,008 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending March 2, 2007, the Mariposa-Yosemite airport had 32,000 aircraft operations, an average of 87 per day: 94%

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and 6%

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. There are 52 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single engine, 2% multi-engine and 2%

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. There is one FBO on the field, Airborrn Aviation Services.Yosemite Aviation
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World War II

During

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, the airport was designated as Mariposa Air Force Auxiliary Field, and was an auxiliary training airfield for

Merced Army Airfield Castle Air Force Base (Castle AFB, 1941–1995) is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base in California, located northeast of Atwater, northwest of Merced, and about south of Sacramento. The Central Valley base in unin ...

, California.

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File:Mariposa Yosemite Airport base leg photo D Ramey Logan.jpg, Mariposa Yosemite Airport base leg In July 2022, five CH-54s were assigned to fighting the

Washburn Fire The Washburn Fire was a wildfire that burned in Yosemite National Park near the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. The fire was reported on July 7, 2022, in the lower Mariposa Grove area near the Washburn trail, for which the fire is named. The ...

, based at the Mariposa-Yosemite Airport. File:N715HT 2022-07-16.jpg, N715HT on duty in

Mariposa, California Mariposa (; Spanish for "Butterfly") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Mariposa County, California, United States. The population was 1,526 at the 2020 census. The community is named afte ...

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Facilities and aircraft

World War II

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