Bruce Campbell Field is a city-owned public-use

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located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of the central business district of

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, a city in Madison County,

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, United States. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''

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'' airport. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and IATA, this airport is assigned MBO by the FAA, and DXE from IATA (which assigned MBO to Mamburao Airport in the

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Facilities and aircraft

Bruce Campbell Field covers an area of 260 acres (105 ha) at an

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of 326 feet (99 m) above

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. It has one

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designated 17/35 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,444 by 75 feet (1,355 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending April 14, 2011, the airport had 48,660 aircraft operations, an average of 133 per day: 99.8%

and 0.2%

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. At that time there were 63 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-

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, and 13% multi-engine.

History

The airport was opened in March 1941 as Augustine Auxiliary Field with an all-direction 4,000' turf takeoff/landing field. single 3,600' concrete runway. It began training

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flying cadets under contract to Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics, Inc. The airport was assigned to Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command) as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield, reporting to

Jackson Army Air Base Hawkins Field is a joint civil-military public airport in Jackson, Mississippi. It is owned by the City of Jackson and operated by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 call ...

. The airfield had three local auxiliary airfields for emergency and overflow landings. Flying training was performed with Fairchild PT-19s as the primary trainer and also had several

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s assigned. The airfield was deactivated on June 30, 1945, with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. It was declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on September 30, 1945, and was eventually discharged to the War Assets Administration (WAA) and became a civil airport. Manning, Thomas A. (2005), ''History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002''. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas

References

External links

Madison Air Center
the

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(FBO)
Aerial image as of February 1996
from

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Facilities and aircraft

History

See also

References

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