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Opened in 1934 as Starkville Municipal Airport. During World War II the airport was taken over abruptly by the government to be used as a glider training base ( Starkville AF Auxiliary Field ). Plans for the AAF Basic Training Detachment were for 150 students using the Aeronca TG-5 gliders.
This is a list of airports in Mississippi (a 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.
Golden Triangle Regional Airport (IATA: GTR, ICAO: KGTR, FAA LID: GTR) is a public use airport in unincorporated Lowndes County, Mississippi. [2] [1] The airport is located approximately midway between the cities of Columbus, Starkville, and West Point, Mississippi, and serves the surrounding Golden Triangle region of Mississippi and parts of West Alabama.
Now: Columbus Air Force Base Known sub-bases and auxiliaries Columbus Auxiliary Field River Auxiliary Field Caledonia Auxiliary Field Waterworks Auxiliary Field Columbus Municipal Airport (Old) Vaughn Auxiliary Field Stinson Auxiliary Field Starkville Auxiliary Field. Greenville Army Airfield, Greenville, Mississippi; Southeast Training Center ...
Reorganized and expanded to form the 932d Field Artillery Battalion (organized in east central Mississippi and Federally recognized 17 December 1946 with headquarters at Starkville), an element of the 31st Infantry Division, and the 631st Field Artillery Battalion (see below).
Starkville is the largest city in the Golden Triangle, which had a population of 175,474 in 2020, and the principal city of the Starkville-Columbus, MS CSA. Founded in 1831, the city was originally known as Boardtown for the local sawmilling operation there, but was renamed in 1837 to honor American Revolutionary War general John Stark. [7]
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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.