Cottage Grove State Airport or Jim Wright Field , is a public

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serving small general aviation aircraft, located one mile (1.6 km) east of the city of Cottage Grove in

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. On December 17, 2003 the airfield was named after Jim Wright, a local aviator and businessman who built a reproduction

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. Wright died in an accident in aircraft on August 4, 2003.

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Wright Machine Tools dedication to Jim WrightNTSB report on Jim Wright Accident
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