Jimmy Carter Regional Airport
| Jimmy Carter Regional Airport Souther Field |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Americus | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Sumter County, near Americus, Georgia | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 471 ft / 144 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°06′38.8770″N 084°11′19.85″W / 32.110799167°N 84.1888472°WCoordinates: 32°06′38.8770″N 084°11′19.85″W / 32.110799167°N 84.1888472°W | ||||||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations | 5,600 |
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| Based aircraft | 28 |
Jimmy Carter Regional Airport (ICAO: KACJ, FAA LID: ACJ) previously Souther Field is a public airport located four miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Americus, in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. It owned by the City of Americus.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Souther Field is assigned ACJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
Jimmy Carter Regional Airport covers an area of 378 acres (153 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 6,021 by 100 feet (1,835 m × 30 m) and 9/27 measuring 3,787 by 75 feet (1,154 m × 23 m). As of 2011, there are 28 aircraft based at this airport. These aircraft include 26 single-engine, and 2 multi-engine aircraft. For the 12-month period ending June 7, 2006, the airport had 5,600 aircraft operations, an average of 15 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% military.
Souther Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917. Its history begins in 1918, when on 19 January, the War Department leased 407 acres (165 ha) 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of the center of Americus, Georgia from Sumter County for a primary training airfield and an aviation supply depot. The Air Service named the facility Souther Field in honor of Major Henry Souther who served as consulting engineer on many of the World War I aviation projects. Major Souther had been killed earlier in the line of duty at Fort Monroe, Virginia. When completed, the base consisted of warehouses, accommodations for 2,000 officers and men, 15 wooden hangars, and a hospital plus other structures.
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