Homerville Airport

Homerville Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KHOE – FAA LID: HOE
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Homerville
Serves Homerville, Georgia
Elevation AMSL 186 ft / 57 m
Coordinates 31°03′21″N 082°46′27″W / 31.05583°N 82.77417°W / 31.05583; -82.77417
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14/32 4,000 1,219 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 1,300

Homerville Airport (ICAO: KHOE, FAA LID: HOE) is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) northwest of the central business district of Homerville, a city in Clinch County, Georgia, United States.[1]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned HOE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[2]

History

The airport was built by the United States Army Air Forces about 1942, and was known as Homerville Flight Strip. It was an emergency landing airfield for military aircraft on training flights. It was closed after World War II, and was turned over for local government use by the War Assets Administration (WAA).[3][4]

Facilities and aircraft

Homerville Airport covers an area of 239 acres (97 ha) at an elevation of 186 feet (57 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 14/32 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending August 26, 2008, the airport had 1,300 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 108 per month.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 FAA Airport Master Record for HOE (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "Homerville Airport (FAA: HOE, ICAO: KHOE)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  3. ↑  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
  4. ↑ Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.

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