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Griffiss International Airport covers an area of 1,680 acres (680 ha) and contains one runway: [1]. Runway 15/33: 11,820 x 200 ft (3,603 x 61 m), Surface: Concrete For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2023 the airport had 32,880 aircraft operations; average 90 per day: 85% general aviation, 12% military, 3% air taxi, and <1% commercial.
The USAF had originally applied "Griffiss Air Force Base" to Fort Worth Army Airfield in Texas on 1 January 1948, but its name was changed on 27 February to memorialize native son and Medal of Honor recipient, Major Horace Carswell, who gave his life while attempting to crash-land his crippled B-24 over China. [6]
A Black Hawk helicopter of the brigade struck the air traffic control tower at Griffiss International Airport after landing there on 16 June 2018. One member of its crew had a minor injury as a result. [14] The brigade conducted flight operations and training as part of Exercise Falcon Peak in Griffiss Airport in August 2021. [15]
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Oneida County closed the airport in January 2007 and transferred operations to Griffiss International Airport, (formerly Griffiss Air Force Base) about five miles (8.0 km) to the north in Rome, New York. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport boarded 2,122 passengers in calendar year 2004 and 1,951 in 2005. [2]
On 1 January 1948, Fort Worth Airfield was renamed Griffiss Air Force Base [15] as a memorial to Lt. Col. Townsend Griffiss (1900–1942), a Buffalo native and 1922 West Point graduate who, in 1942, became the first U.S. airman to be killed in the line of duty in the European Theatre of World War II [16] when his Consolidated B-24 Liberator was ...
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