Weekend Stoppers at Williams Gateway; Mesa-Phoenix, March 11, 2017

Aircraft on the Move in the United States; Text and Photograph's by Alex van Noye

One of the airports which is located around the American city of Phoenix is Mesa Williams Gateway. This airfield is a small civilian airport where usually business jets of civilian companies are stationed. Regularly, also military aircraft will spend the weekend at this airport. The aircraft will typically come in on Friday and will depart again on Sunday in the afternoon. There is at Mesa Gateway a platform reserved for this weekend charts which are using this airport. Most aircraft which can be found here are from the US Navy and the US Marines. Often these aircraft will refuel when they are in transit to the eastern part of the United States. Mesa gateway is therefore a typical military weekend airfield.