Moultrie Municipal Airport Explained

Moultrie Municipal Airport
Iata:MGR
Icao:KMGR
Faa:MGR
Type:Public
Owner:City of Moultrie
City-Served:Moultrie, Georgia
Elevation-F:294
Coordinates:31.085°N -83.8033°W
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map:USA Georgia
Pushpin Label:MGR
Pushpin Label Position:top
R1-Number:4/22
R1-Length-F:5,129
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:16/34
R2-Length-F:3,878
R2-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2010
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations
Stat1-Data:15,500
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:29
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Moultrie Municipal Airport is seven miles south of Moultrie in Colquitt County, Georgia, United States. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2] 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 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 acres (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

References

  1. . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective April 5, 2012.
  2. Book: Appendix A: List of NPIAS Airports with 5-Year Forecast Activity and Development Cost. National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Reports. https://web.archive.org/web/20121027122636/http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/index.cfm?sect=2011. 2012-10-27. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010.

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