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Courtland Airport〔〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Air Show set for next week in Courtland ) 〕 is a public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Courtland, a town in Lawrence County, Alabama, United States. It is owned by the Lawrence County Commission〔 and was formerly known as Lawrence County Airport.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Businessman seeks to lead airport ) 〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Airport Information Reference Page (9A4) ) 〕 This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015〔 〕 and 2009–2013,〔 〕 both of which categorized it as a ''general aviation'' facility. == History == Following the onset of World War II, the United States faced a challenging goal to train upwards of 75,000 to 100,000 pilots per year. It was recognized that to achieve this goal, many new training fields would have to be constructed - hundreds across the country. Due to the climate allowing year-round flight instruction, as well as the low airways congestion, North Alabama was considered to be a good location for one of the new Army Air Force training fields. Following a review by a site selection board, Courtland was chosen to receive this facility. It was considered the best overall site of three evaluated within the North Alabama region. As training needs decreased toward the end of the war, training air fields were deactivated across the country. Courtland Army Airfield was one of these, it being deactivated in June 1945. At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the War Department in 1946 and was excessed. The site was returned to the State of Alabama by Quitclaim Deed in 1948. With regard to the original structures, most everything but the runways, and several concrete slabs with 3 or 4 wide concrete steps are gone now. A steel-framed aircraft hangar that was once used at Courtland still exists and is still in use, but is no longer located at the Courtland site. This structure was disassembled and moved to the Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham International Airport) during the early 1950s. Lockheed Martin and other light industries call the Lawrence County Industrial Airpark site home today. A golf course also hugs the northeast to west perimeter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Courtland Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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