Middleton Field

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Coordinates: 31°24′57″N 087°02′39″W / 31.41583, -87.04417

Middleton Field
IATA: none – ICAO: KGZH – FAA: GZH
Summary
Airport type		Public / Military
Owner		City of Evergreen
Serves		Evergreen, Alabama
Elevation AMSL		259 ft / 79 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
1/19	4,000	1,219	Asphalt
10/28	4,000	1,219	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			134,005
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Middleton Field (ICAO: KGZH, FAA LID: GZH, formerly 39J) is a public-use airport located five miles (8 km) west of the central business district of Evergreen, a city in Conecuh County, Alabama, United States.^[1] Although the airport is owned by the City of Evergreen and used for general aviation, it is primarily used for flight training by the U.S Navy.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Middleton Field is assigned GZH by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Accidents
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Middleton Field covers an area of 200 acres (81 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways (1/19 and 10/28) each measuring 4,000 x 150 ft. (1,219 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending June 25, 2007, the airport had 134,005 aircraft operations, an average of 367 per day: 96% military and 4% general aviation.^[1]

[edit] Accidents

On July 13, 1982, Lt. Cmdr. Barbara Allen Rainey, the U.S. Navy's first female pilot, and her student were killed in a crash while practicing touch-and-go landings at Middleton Field.^[3]