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The airport was opened in September 1942 as Porterville Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourth Air Force as a training base during World War II. It was a sub-base to Lemoore AAF, being used as a pilot training facility. Improvements to the site included a fueling system utilizing nine underground storage tanks.
This is a list of airports in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, grouped by type and sorted by location.The list includes 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.
Connellsville MAP, Connellsville; Now: Joseph A. Hardy Connellsville Airport (ICAO: KVVS, FAA LID: VVS) Olmsted Field AAF, Middletown; 487th/496th Army Air Force Base Unit Was: Olmsted Air Force Base (1947-1968) Now: Harrisburg International Airport (IATA: MDT, ICAO: KMDT, FAA LID: MDT) First Air Force. Philadelphia Northeast Airport ...
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport: Blytheville Army Air Field: Arkansas: 1942-1946 [11] Arkansas International Airport: Bruning Army Air Field: Nebraska: 1942–1945: Mid-America Feed Yard Condron Army Airfield: White Sands Missile Range: New Mexico: 1945–2015: Drone operations [12] Courtland Army Airfield Alabama: 1942–1946 ...
Lancaster Airport covers an area of 850 acres (344 ha) at an elevation of 403 feet (123 m) above mean sea level.It has two asphalt paved runways: 8/26 is 6,933 by 150 feet (2,113 x 46 m) and 13/31 is 4,102 by 100 feet (1,250 x 30 m).
Smoketown Airport (FAA LID: S37) is an airport open to the public, located in Smoketown, 6.3 miles (10.1 km) east of Lancaster, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. The airport is owned by Marlin Horst and managed by Mel Glick.
In 1998, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania transferred ownership of the airport to the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA). [2] In addition, in 1966, much of the former Air Force property was converted into The Pennsylvania State University—The Capital College, otherwise known as the Harrisburg Campus .
In the year ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 48,184 aircraft operations, average 132 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% military, and 1% air taxi. 60 aircraft were then based at this airport: 56 single-engine, 2 multi-engine, and 2 glider.