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Bruce Campbell Field is a city-owned public-use airport located two 
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s (4  km) southeast of the
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, a city in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. This airport is included in the
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for 2011–2015, which
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it as a '' general aviation'' airport. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and
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, this airport is assigned MBO by the FAA, and DXE from IATA (which assigned MBO to
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in the Philippines).


Facilities and aircraft

Bruce Campbell Field covers an area of 260
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s (105 ha) at an elevation of 326 feet (99 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway 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% general aviation and 0.2% military. At that time there were 63 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single- engine, 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 United States Army Air Corps 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. The airfield had three local auxiliary airfields for emergency and overflow landings. Flying training was performed with
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s as the primary trainer and also had several PT-17 Stearmans 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


See also

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Mississippi World War II Army Airfields During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Mississippi for antisubmarine defense in the Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfield ...
*
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29th Flying Training Wing (World War II) The 29th Flying Training Wing was a wing of the United States Army Air Forces. It was last assigned to the Western Flying Training Command, and was disbanded on 16 June 1946 at Napier Field, Alabama. The wing controlled World War II Phase One p ...


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Madison Air Center
the fixed-base operator (FBO)
Aerial image as of February 1996
from USGS '' The National Map'' * *
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