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Albany Army Airfield 1944, looking southeast. On August 15, 1940 the first class of 45 cadets began training. The cadets were initially housed in the Georgia Hotel until the barracks reached completion on 20 August. Flight training commenced with 15 PT-13 Stearmans and 11 flight instructors. Seven classes of American cadets were trained until ...
This is a list of airports in Georgia (U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2008, the airport had 24,500 aircraft operations, an average of 67 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 2% jet and 2% helicopter. [1]
In 1909 the airport moved to Westerlo Island, in the city of Albany, but at that time was in the town of Bethlehem; the airport was named at this time. The airport was named after Teddy Roosevelt's son, Quentin, a fighter pilot during World War I who perished while in air combat. A $10,000 prize was established for sustained flight between ...
Eastman–Dodge County Airport was renamed to Heart of Georgia Regional Airport on October 9, 1995 by the Eastman-Dodge County Airport Authority. [4] The construction of a 50,000 square feet (4,600 m 2) aviation campus for Heart of Georgia Technical Institute was completed in December 1995 on 14 acres (5.7 ha) of land adjacent to the airport ...
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Souther Field [5] was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917. [6] Its history begins in 1918, when on 19 January, the War Department leased 407 acres (165 ha) 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of the center of Americus, Georgia from Sumter County for a primary training airfield and an aviation supply depot.
It was previously 47A when it was known as the Cherokee County Airport, prior to improvements made in the 2010s. A redevelopment project currently underway includes an already completed 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2 ) terminal; the ongoing lengthening of the runway from its previous 3,414 feet (1,041 m) to 5,000 feet (1,524 m); a new parallel ...