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Waycross–Ware County Airport
Waycross–Ware County Airport is four miles northwest of Waycross, Georgia, Waycross, in Ware County, Georgia, Ware County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is owned by the City of Waycross and Ware County. Facilities The airport covers and has three asphalt runways. Runway 1/19 is 5,992 × , with low to high intensity lighting (19 has an Instrument Landing System, ILS approach and 1 has a GPS approach). Runway 5/23 is 5,044 × . Runway 13/31 is 3,554 × . In the year ending December 21, 2022, the airport had 18,000 aircraft operations, average 49 per day: 98% general aviation and 3% military. 37 aircraft were then based at this airport: 34 single-engine, 2 multi-engine, and 1 jet. History In April 1930 Ware County and the City of Waycross established an airport three miles northwest of the city. A 1935 airport guide described the Ware County Airport as a sod airfield, roughly a half mile square, with a hangar, no servicing, and operated by the Department of Commerce. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waycross, Georgia
Waycross is the county seat of, and only incorporated city in, Ware County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 14,725 at the 2010 Census and dropped to 13,942 in the 2020 census. Waycross includes two historic districts (Downtown Waycross Historic District and Waycross Historic District) and several other properties that are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Lott Cemetery, the First African Baptist Church and Parsonage, and the Obediah Barber Homestead (which is seven miles south of the city). The city is also referenced in the song Miller's Cave by the international Submarine Band.https://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/song/millers-cave/ History The area now known as Waycross was first settled ''circa'' 1820, locally known as "Old Nine" or "Number Nine" and then Pendleton. It was renamed Tebeauville in 1857, incorporated under that name in 1866, and designated county seat of Ware County in 1873. It was incorp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
