North Auxiliary Airfield

North Air Force Auxiliary Airfield (ICAO: KXNO, FAA LID: XNO) is a military airfield located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of North, a town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States.

It is owned by the U.S. Air Force and is used primarily for C-17 Globemaster III training by the 628 ABW and its Air Force Reserve "Associate" unit, the 315th Airlift Wing, at Joint Base Charleston. Other units can utilize North with prior coordination with the 628 AW. The 628th Civil Engineering Squadron (628 CES) of the 628 ABW/437th AW at Charleston AFB maintains a detachment to maintain and operate the airfield.

Facilities

North Auxiliary Airfield covers an area of 2,400 acres (971 ha), of which 1,150 acres (465 ha) are undeveloped. It contains two asphalt paved runways: the main runway (6/24) measuring 10,000 x 150 ft (3,048 x 46 m) and an asphalt runway (5/23) measuring 3,500 x 90 ft (1,067 x 27 m).

History

The land for North Army Airfield was bought between 1942 and 1945. The airfield was built by the United States Army Air Forces The original dirt runway was constructed in April 1943 and used by Hughes Aircraft Company for testing, as well as being a satellite airfield of Columbia Army Air Base, supporting B-25 Mitchell medium bomber training for Third Air Force III Air Support Command. Training was accomplished by 74th Station Complement Squadron which also maintained the facility.

XNO (disambiguation)

XNO may refer to:

There are two bands named Xno: