Fort Sumner Municipal Airport
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Fort Sumner Municipal Airport Fort Sumner Army Airfield |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Village of Fort Sumner | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Fort Sumner, New Mexico | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,165 ft / 1,269 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°29′16″N 104°13′01″W / 34.48778°N 104.21694°WCoordinates: 34°29′16″N 104°13′01″W / 34.48778°N 104.21694°W | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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| Aircraft operations | 150 |
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| Based aircraft | 5 |
Fort Sumner Municipal Airport (IATA: FSU, ICAO: KFSU, FAA LID: FSU) is a village owned, public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Fort Sumner, a village in De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport.
The airfield's origins date to the 1920s when the Transcontinental Air Transport airline built an airfield in Fort Sumner as part of its coast-to-coast air passenger network, but the site was abandoned when the airline's ambitious plans collapsed in the Great Depression.
The airfield was reopened in February 1941, and was rebuilt in 1942 by the United States Army Air Forces as a World War II training airfield. It was assigned to the AAF Flying Training Command West Coast Training Center and was known as Fort Sumner Army Airfield. The flying cadets at the airfield were trained in advanced twin engine aircraft as phase three of their pilot training. The airfield had at least seven auxiliary landing fields, two of which have been identified:
On August 6, 1944, the airfield was transferred to Second Air Force, where it became a replacement facility for B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator crew training.
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