Crisp County–Cordele Airport


Crisp County–Cordele Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Cordele, a city in Crisp County, Georgia, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. The airport does not have scheduled commercial airline service.

History

Opened to the public in March 1943, during World War II, the airport was requisitioned by the United States Army Air Force, and was known as Cordele Army Airfield. It was also known as Turner AAF Auxiliary Airfield No. 7. The airfield supported the AAF Advanced Pilot School school at Turner Army Airfield.
It was closed in mid-1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. Declared surplus, it was turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on September 30, 1945 and eventually discharged to the War Assets Administration to become a civil airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Crisp County–Cordele Airport covers an area of 619 acres at an elevation of 310 feet above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 10/28 is 5,001 by 150 feet and 5/23 is 5,006 by 100 feet.
For the 12-month period ending August 10, 2010, the airport had 22,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 60 per day. At that time there were 16 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single-engine and 6% helicopter.