River Airport
| River Airport River Auxiliary Field | |
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2006 USGS airphoto | |
| Summary | |
| Serves | Caledonia, Mississippi |
| Coordinates | 33°48′01″N 088°19′13″W / 33.80028°N 88.32028°W |
| Map | |
  Location of River Auxiliary Field | |
River Airport is an abandoned airport located 8 miles (13 km) north of Caledonia, Mississippi.
History
The airport was built about 1942 as an auxiliary airfield to the Army pilot school at Columbus Army Airfield. It was designated River Auxiliary Field It had a single sod 4,000-foot (1,200 m) runway, and did not have any hangars or structures. It was apparently unmanned unless necessary for aircraft recovery.
It was sold after the war in 1945 and during the postwar years was used as a civil airport and also by the USAF during the 1950s for occasional touch and go landings. It was closed in the 1960s and abandoned.
Today, the outline of the runway is visible in aerial photography. The airport itself is cleared agricultural fields.
See also
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.