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Main Hangar at Key Field. Meridian Regional Airport was established in 1928 and opened in November 1930 with the completion of the terminal, hangar, powerhouse, and a graded and packed dirt runway. Meridian city officials asked Al and Fred Key, who operated the Key Brothers' Flying School at Bonita, to co-manage the new facility. The brothers ...
A USAF Convair T-29D-CO, 52-5826, c/n 52–25, [2] returning to Langley AFB, Virginia, from Key Field, Meridian, Mississippi, with seven Air Force personnel on board, suffers mid-air collision at 1836 hrs. with a Cessna 150H, N50430, of Cavalier Flyers, with two U.S. Navy personnel on board, 4.1 miles (6.5 km) W of Newport News, Virginia, the ...
North American B-25C Mitchell, 41-12740, [34] of the 473d Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 334th Bombardment Group (Medium), [35] (activated as a combat crew training group on 16 July 1942) en route from Greenville Army Air Base, South Carolina, to Key Field, Meridian, Mississippi, crashed into the Blue Ridge Mountains ~21 miles N of Walhalla in ...
Fred Key ran the Key Brothers Flying Service at Key Field until his death in 1971. The cutoff valve developed for the Keys by A.D. Hunter was an important innovation for national defense , being the precursor of those used by modern tanker airplanes, such as the KC-135 Stratotanker , that keep bombers and fighter aircraft in the air.
Sep. 20—A suspect in an August 2022 homicide investigation was recently arrested in Florida and will be brought back to Meridian to face charges, Meridian Police Department announced Tuesday ...
The 186th Air Refueling Wing is a unit of the Mississippi Air National Guard stationed at Meridian Regional Airport, Mississippi.The 153d Air Refueling Squadron, assigned to the Wing's 186th Operations Group, was established on 18 August 1939 as the 153d Observation Squadron, one of the 29 National Guard observation squadrons formed before World War II.
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Admiral David L. McDonald Field Mayport: Florida: N/A Navy Region Southeast [14] Naval Air Station Meridian: McCain Field Meridian: Mississippi: N/A Navy Region Southeast [15] Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans: Alvin Callender Field Belle Chasse: Louisiana: N/A Navy Region Southeast [16] Naval Air Station North Island: Halsey ...