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In 1939 Oliver Parks was brought to Alabama to set up a Civilian Pilot Training Program, CPTP, for the University of Alabama. A brick hangar was built on the property and the first class of students were licensed before the end of 1939. [6] The airport was opened in April 1940 as Van De Graaff Field. It originally consisted of four turf runways ...
The Alabama State Trooper Aviation Unit was formed in 1975 using four Bell H-13 Sioux and one Cessna 182. The unit currently operates one Bell 206 L, one Bell 407 , seven OH-58 helicopters and three Cessna 182’s, a Piper Navajo and King Air 200 .
The closest commercial airports are the Columbus Airport (40 miles (64 km) via US-280) in Columbus, Georgia, the Montgomery Regional Airport (60 miles (97 km) via I-85) in Montgomery, Alabama, the Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport (115 miles (185 km) via US-280) in Birmingham, Alabama, and the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta ...
A 1,500-foot runway extension opened July 1, 2013. [2] For the 12-month period ending April 16, 2009, the airport had 34,260 aircraft operations, an average of 93 per day: 93% general aviation, 5% air taxi, and 2% military. At that time there were 102 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 2% jet and 7% helicopter. [1]
Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile is an air base of the United States Coast Guard located at Mobile, Alabama, where it shares an airfield with the Mobile Regional Airport. The Alabama Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment's "B" Company is also located at the airfield. The base is also home to the Coast Guard ...
Beechcraft AT-7s were used for two-engine pilot training and also navigator training Boeing B-17s and Consolidated B-24s were used for four-engine pilot training L-2, L-3, L-4, TG-5 and TG-6s were used for glider and liaison pilot training Gunnery training schools flew A-33, AT-6s, AT-1s, B-34s, B-10s and RP-63s for air-to-air flexible gunnery ...
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Craig Field 1942 classbook. Craig Air Force Base near Selma, Alabama, was a U.S. Air Force undergraduate pilot training (UPT) installation that closed in 1977. Today the facility is a civilian airport known as Craig Field Airport and Industrial Complex (ICAO: KSEM; FAA: SEM).