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Minden–Tahoe Airport is a general aviation airport serving the Carson Valley in Douglas County, including the towns of Minden, Gardnerville and Genoa, Nevada. The airport is five miles north of Minden. It is home to the Sierra Front Interagency Dispatch Center and regional firefighting air tanker base. The airport is a mecca for soaring, and many North American and world records have been flown out of Minden in the many gliders that it hosts. Gliders are usually towed to altitudes of over the airport, and they are often able to make out and return flights to the White Mountains, Owens Valley, and Eastern Nevada, often covering distances of over . During winter months the famous Sierra mountain wave can carry gliders well over , with the Minden record well over . A non-fatal mid-air collision near the Pine Nuts range between a glider and a small jet at has heightened the awareness for all airplanes flying in the area that both types of aircraft need to watch for each other. The airport is undergoing an expansion plan where glider operations will be moved to the East Side of the airport. Minden–Tahoe Airport is the base for the "Introduction to Soaring" tutorial mission supplied with ''Microsoft Flight Simulator X''. == Facilities== Minden–Tahoe Airport covers at an elevation of . It has two asphalt runways: 16/34 is and 12/30 is . A glider runway (12G/30G) has of dirt.〔 In the year ending February 28, 2009 the airport had 79,800 aircraft operations, average 218 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi, and less than 1% military. 255 aircraft were then based at the airport: 56% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 2% jet, 1% helicopter, 31% glider and less than 1% ultralight.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minden–Tahoe Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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