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For the 12-month period ending July 7, 2008, the airport had 15,500 aircraft operations, an average of 42 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% military. At that time there were 45 aircraft based at this airport: 78% single-engine, 20% multi-engine and 2% jet. [1] Plane pulling up to get fuel in Asheboro
Hangar homes at Independence State Airport.. A residential airpark (also spelled air park) is a "fly-in community" specifically designed around an airport where the residents own their privately owned airplanes which they park in their hangars, usually attached to the home or integrated into their home.
Simmons Army Airfield [2] (IATA: FBG, ICAO: KFBG, FAA LID: FBG) is a military use airport located in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. [1] It is located on the southeast portion of Fort Liberty and supports the aviation needs of the XVIII Airborne Corps, the 82nd Airborne Division, Special Operations, U.S. Army Reserve and U.S. National Guard aviation units.
44-72936 – to airworthiness by private owner in Encino, California. [275] 44-72990 (unnamed) – in storage at US Army Aviation Museum at Fort Novosel, Alabama. [citation needed] 44-73081 – in storage by private owner in Hayward, California. [276] 44-73163 – to airworthiness by private owner in Hot Springs, North Carolina. [277]
For the 12-month period ending June 6, 2008, the airport had 34,100 aircraft operations, an average of 93 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% military. At that time there were 71 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single- engine , 10% multi-engine and 3% helicopter .
Both names were combined and now the facility is referred to as the North Carolina Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame. Branson died in 2006. In 2008, the museum featured a F4U-4 Corsair , courtesy of Classic Fighters of America pilot Doug Matthews, one of an estimated 40 air-worthy examples in the world.
In 2006 the forward fuselage of Northwest Airlines' first [citation needed] 747-100 was removed from the aircraft at Maxton by Guard-Lee for installation in the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington DC. The remainder of the aircraft was scrapped and parted by Charlotte Aircraft at Laurinburg–Maxton Airport.
In 1992, Floyd and Lois Peithman Wilson founded the museum, which has a collection of over 50 static aircraft and many smaller historic items related to aviation in North Carolina and South Carolina. Most of the collection consists of Cold War military aircraft, including several historic jet aircraft from the 1950s and 1960s.