Childress Municipal Airport

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Childress Municipal Airport
IATA: CDS - ICAO: KCDS
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		City of Childress, Texas
Elevation AMSL		1,954 ft (595.6 m)
Coordinates		34°26′01.6104″N, 100°17′16.7704″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
17/35	5,949	1,813	Asphalt
4/22	4,425	1,349	Asphalt

Childress Municipal Airport (IATA: CDS, ICAO: CDS) is a commercial airport located 4 miles W of Childress, Texas.

It is owned and operated by the city of Childress, Texas.

Contents 1 History 2 See Also 3 References 4 External Links

[edit] History

The airport was opened in July 1943 as Childress Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base. At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the military and turned over to the local government for civil use.

[edit] See Also

• Texas World War II Army Airfields

[edit] References

• AirNav.Com - Childress Municipal Airport (KCDS)
• Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517

[edit] External Links

• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KCDS
  • ASN accident history for CDS
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KCDS
  • FAA current CDS delay information