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The ten-week course consisted of 70 hours of flight training and 150 hours of ground training. Harold Darr named the school Georgia Aero Tech; however, the Army designated it the 72nd Army Air Force Flight Training Detachment. The school was one of only three contract pilot schools conducting basic training.
The airport was then named for Richard B. Russell, Jr., [5] who represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate from 1933 until his death in 1971. Eastern Airlines served the airport with scheduled passenger service until the late 1960s. Eastern operated Convair 440 propliners with service to Atlanta, Nashville and St. Louis. [6] [7]
An untowered airport, Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport is a popular general aviation airport that covers an area of 292 acres (118 ha) and contains two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 5,500 by 100 ft (1,676 by 30 m) and 11/29 measuring 4,001 by 100 ft (1,220 by 30 m).
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