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West Georgia Regional Airport
West Georgia Regional Airport , also known as O. V. Gray Field, is a public use airport located five nautical miles (9 kilometre, km) northwest of the central business district of Carrollton, Georgia, Carrollton, in Carroll County, Georgia, Carroll County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. It is owned by the West Georgia Airport Authority. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA and International Air Transport Association, IATA, this airport is assigned CTJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. Facilities and aircraft The airport covers an area of at an elevation of 1,161 feet (354 m) above mean sea level. It has one Asphalt concrete, asphalt paved runway designated 17/35 which measures 5,503 by 100 feet (1,677 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2008, the airport had 24,500 aircraft operations, an average of 67 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military avia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrollton, Georgia
Carrollton, Georgia is a city in the northwest region of Georgia, about 45 miles (72 km) west of Atlanta near the Alabama state line. It is the county seat of Carroll County, which is included in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Historically, Carrollton has been a commercial center for several mostly rural counties in both Georgia and Alabama. It is the home of the University of West Georgia and West Georgia Technical College. It is a rural area with a large farming community. The 2019 United States Census estimates placed the city's population at 27,259. History Carroll County, of which Carrollton is the county seat, was chartered in 1826, and was governed at the time by the Carroll Inferior Court, which consisted of five elected justices. In 1829, the justices voted to move the county seat from the site it occupied near the present community of Sandhill, to a new site about to the southwest.Bonner, James C. (1970). ''Georgia's Last Frontier: The Development of Carroll County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
