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Jeremiah Denton Airport (FAA LID: 4R9), formerly Dauphin Island Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. [1] It is just northwest of the central business district of Dauphin Island, [1] a town located on a barrier island. The airport is on Mobile Bay, west of the Aloe Bay Channel. [2]
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 ...
On August 14, 2013, UPS Airlines Flight 1354, [74] N155UP, an Airbus A300-600, crashed in an open field on approach to Runway 18, killing both the pilot and co-pilot. Two Part 135 (Air Taxi & Commuter) accidents have occurred since 1962 which resulted in fatalities.
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).
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 .
Effective August 1, 2013, all airline pilots must have an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate (ATP) or an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate with restricted Privileges (ATP-r). An ATP allows a pilot to act as the captain or first officer of an airline flight and requires 1,500 hours of total flight time as well as other requirements (i.e. 25 ...
[1] For the 12-month period ending May 16, 2010, the airport had 46,800 aircraft operations, an average of 128 per day:98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 37 aircraft based at this airport: 76% single-engine, 16% multi-engine, 3% jet and 5% helicopter. [1] There is a full service fixed-base operator (FBO) on the field ...