Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico

MCAF Quantico Turner Field
MCAF Quantico emblem
IATA: NYG ICAO: KNYG FAA LID: NYG
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	United States Marine Corps
Serves	Marine Corps Base Quantico
Location	Quantico, Virginia
Built	1919
In use	1919–present
Commander	LtCol William C. Pacatte
Occupants	HMX-1
Elevation AMSL	10 ft / 3 m
Coordinates	38°30′13″N 77°18′18″W / 38.50361°N 77.30500°W / 38.50361; -77.30500
Website	quantico.marines.mil/...
Map
MCAF Quantico
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 2/20 4,237 1,291 Asphalt
Sources: Official site and FAA

Coordinates: 38°30′13″N 077°18′18″W / 38.50361°N 77.30500°W / 38.50361; -77.30500

Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico (MCAF Quantico) (IATA: NYG, ICAO: KNYG, FAA LID: NYG) is a United States Marine Corps airfield located within Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. It was commissioned in 1919 and is currently home to HMX-1, the squadron that flies the President of the United States. The airfield is also known as Turner Field, after Colonel Thomas C. Turner, a veteran Marine aviator and the second director of Marine Corps Aviation, who lost his life in Haiti in 1931. On August 12, 2010, a new Quantico air facility to accommodate maintenance and storage of HMX-1 helicopters was dedicated in honor of Marine One founding commander Col. Virgil D. Olson (1919–2012).

Aviation first arrived at Quantico on May 6, 1896 when Dr. Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834–1906), Astronomer and third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, launched his successful Aerodrome #5, a steam engine powered, unpiloted aircraft from a houseboat in the shadow of Chopawamsic Island adjacent to the present-day approach end of Runway 20 at Quantico Marine Corps Air Facility. The #5 Aerodrome made two successful flights that afternoon, one of 1005 m/3300 ft and a second of 700 m/2300 ft (these are horizontal distances measured along a curving flight path) at a speed of approximately 25 mph.