Eric Marcus Municipal Airport

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Eric Marcus Municipal Airport
7 September 1992
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA: P01
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Pima County
Location		Ajo, Arizona
Elevation AMSL		1,458 ft / 444 m
Coordinates		32°27′10″N 112°51′41″W / 32.45278, -112.86139
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
12/30	3,800	1,158	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			300
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Eric Marcus Municipal Airport (FAA LID: P01), formerly Ajo Municipal Airport, is a county-owned, public-use airport located in Pima County, Arizona, United States, five miles (8 km) north of the central business district of Ajo^[1] and about 82 miles southwest of Phoenix. The airport was renamed on February 11th, 2006.

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 History
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Eric Marcus Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,375 acres (556 ha) and has one runway designated 12/30 with a 3,800 x 60 ft (1,158 x 18 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2006, the airport had 300 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 25 per month.^[1]

The Ajo Country Club is on the southeast part of the former Army Airfield containment area.

[edit] History

The airport was opened about 1943 as Ajo Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base and gunnery range during World War II. It was under the command of the 472d (Reduced) Army Air Force Base Unit, AAF West Coast Training Center as a sub-post of Luke Field.

Ajo AAF also had three auxiliary landing fields, located out on the (now) Barry Goldwater bombing range, #1 at 32°31′41″N 112°55′58″W / 32.52806, -112.93278; #2 at 32°36′19″N 112°52′41″W / 32.60528, -112.87806, and #3 at 32°39′38″N 112°52′14″W / 32.66056, -112.87056. Although abandoned since the war, all of these fields are easily visible from the air.

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. Of the three original runways, only one is serviceable and still in use. Most of the buildings on the airfield were sold off, removed or broken up. Abandoned streets and taxiways are being eroded away by sands, tumbleweeds and time.^[2]

[edit] See also

Arizona World War II Army Airfields

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c FAA Airport Master Record for P01 (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2008-04-10
^ Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517