Moultrie Municipal Airport is seven miles south of
Moultrie in
Colquitt County, Georgia, United States.
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it as a ''
general aviation'' facility.
It has no airline service.
History
Moultrie Airport was built before
World War II; during the war it was used as an auxiliary training field for
Spence Army Airfield
Spence Air Base was a United States Air Force base that operated from 1941 to 1961. It was later reopened as Spence Airport.
History
The City of Moultrie gained its first official municipal airport, Clark Field, in the 1930s. In 1940, local ...
a few miles to the northeast. Known as Spence AAF Auxiliary No. 3 It hosted the 455th School Squadron (Special) beginning on August 1, 1941 while still a civil airport.
The airfield was released from military use on December 15, 1945 and returned to civil use. Southern Airways DC-3s began flights to Moultrie in 1949, but probably at Spence initially; by 1955 they were at Sunset Field, as it was then known. Southern's DC-3s were replaced by Martin 404s, then by Metros, then by Republic CV580s that pulled out in 1981. Moultrie dropped out of the OAG in 1988 when Eastern ended code-share prop flights from Atlanta.
Facilities
The airport covers 369
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s (149
ha) at an elevation of 294 feet (90 m). It has two asphalt runways: 4/22 is 5,129 by 100 feet (1,563 x 30 m) and 16/34 is 3,878 by 75 feet (1,182 x 23 m).
(Runway 10 closed in the 1970s.)
In the year ending August 11, 2010 the airport had 15,500
general aviation operations, average 42 per day. 29 aircraft were then based at the airport: 93% single-engine and 7% multi-engine.
See also
*
Georgia World War II Army Airfields
*
List of airports in Georgia (U.S. state)
References
*
* Manning, Thomas A. (2005), ''History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002''. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas
External links
MGR - Moultrie Muni (Moultrie)from
Georgia DOT
Aerial image as of January 1993from
USGS ''
The National Map''
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{{USAAF Training Bases World War II
Airports in Georgia (U.S. state)
Buildings and structures in Colquitt County, Georgia
Transportation in Colquitt County, Georgia
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Georgia (U.S. state)
Former Essential Air Service airports