Robbins Field

Robbins Field (FAA LID: 20A) is a public use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) northeast of the central business district of Oneonta, a city in Blount County, Alabama, United States. It is owned by the City of Oneonta and Blount County. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a general aviation facility.

Facilities and aircraft

Robbins Field covers an area of 43 acres (17 ha) at an elevation of 1,140 feet (347 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 5/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,210 by 80 feet (1,283 x 24 m).

For the 12-month period ending March 23, 2010, the airport had 2,776 aircraft operations, an average of 231 per month, all general aviation. At that time there were 17 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single-engine and 12% multi-engine.

References

Hawkins Field (airport)

Hawkins Field (IATA: HKS, ICAO: KHKS, FAA LID: HKS) is a joint civil-military public airport three miles northwest of Jackson, in Hinds County, Mississippi. It is owned by the City of Jackson and operated by the Jackson Metropolitan Airport Authority. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation facility.

History

Aviation in Jackson began in 1928 with the purchase of 151 acres of pasture land in the City of Jackson known then as Davis Stock Farm, for $53,500. Davis Field, Jackson’s first airport was dedicated November 9, 1928. Delta Air Lines made its first flight that year beginning in Dallas landing in Jackson and several other cities on their way to Atlanta.

In 1936 the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA), Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) invested $62,150 to improve the airport with a terminal building and paving of an apron. In 1941 the airfield was named Hawkins Field after A.F. Hawkins, a city commissioner with an interest in aviation.