Executive Order 10218—Establishing an Airspace Reservation Over the Las Vegas Project, Las Vegas, Nevada

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 4 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (44 Stat. 570), the airspace above the following-described portion of the United States is hereby reserved and set apart for national defense and other governmental purposes as an airspace reservation within which no person shall navigate an aircraft except by authority of the United States Atomic Energy Commission;

All that area within the United States lying within the following-described boundaries:

Las Vegas Project, Las Vegas, Nevada

Beginning at Latitude 37° 16' 00", Longitude 115° 56' 00"; thence due south to Latitude 36° 41'00", Longitude 115° 56' 00"; thence due west to Latitude 36° 41' 00", Longitude 116° 13' 00"; thence due north to Latitude 37° 16' 00", Longitude 116° 13' 00"; thence due east to Latitude 37° 16' 00", Longitude 115° 56' 00", the point of beginning.

Any person navigating an aircraft within this airspace reservation in violation of the provisions of this order will be subject to the penalties prescribed in the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 973), as amended.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

February 28, 1951