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Hunter Army Airfield (IATA: SVN, ICAO: KSVN, FAA LID: SVN), located in Savannah, Georgia, United States, is a military airfield and subordinate installation to Fort Stewart located in Hinesville, Georgia. Hunter features a runway that is 11,375 feet (3,468 m) long and an aircraft parking area that is more than 350 acres (1.4 km 2).
The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved on 6 July 1967. On 21 October 1972, HHC, 260th was transferred to Fort Stewart. The relocation was short lived as the 260th relocated to its current residence, Hunter Army Airfield, on 1 July 1974. The unit did not see service in the Vietnam War. The unit did see service in Urgent Fury (Grenada)
R. Frank Futrell, “The Development of Base Facilities,” in The Army Air Forces in World War II, vol. 6, Men and Planes, ed. Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, 142 (Washington, D.C., Office of Air Force History, new imprint, 1983).
Waycross Army Airfield, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Waycross; 531st Base Headquarters & Air Base Squadron: 10 May 1943 – 1 May 1944 345th Army Air Force Base Unit: 1 May 1944 – 10 October 1945 Sub-base of: Hunter Field, later Drew Field, Florida Now: Waycross-Ware County Airport (IATA: AYS, ICAO: KAYS, FAA LID: AYS)
CGAS Savannah was commissioned in the summer of 1963 on what was then known as Hunter Air Force Base, which became Hunter Army Airfield in 1967. In 1964, the Coast Guard's original HH-52A Basic Operational Training Unit (BOTU) was established in Savannah.
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Detachment 2 (GA ARNG), Army Aviation Support Facility #3, Hunter Army Airfield [2] Company A (USAR), Simmons Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina; Company B (AL ARNG), Birmingham Air National Guard Base, Birmingham, Alabama Detachment 1 (GA ARNG), Army Aviation Support Facility #3, Hunter Army Airfield [2] Detachment 2 (GA ...
Its Company B was reorganized and redesignated on 16 November 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 159th Aviation; however, it was inactivated 10 years later on 15 September 1997 before being redesignated on 16 October 1997 as Company B, 159th Aviation, and activated at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia.