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DeKalb–Peachtree Airport is a county owned, public use airport in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.〔 The airport is located in Chamblee, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta. It is also known commonly as Peachtree–DeKalb Airport, or simply PDK. Other names (rarely used) include Peachtree Airport, DeKalb Airport, or DeKalb County Airport. ASOS weather reports are produced 24 hours per day as "Chamblee". It has one airline service with Southern Airways Express. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,784 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 393 enplanements in 2009, and 463 in 2010.〔 〕 It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''reliever airport''.〔 〕 == History == The property was originally part of Camp Gordon, a World War I era training camp. In 1940, the United States government authorized construction of a military airport on the site. The airport began operations on March 22, 1941, during early World War II as Naval Air Station Atlanta. Barracks, constructed at the facility during World War II, became classrooms in late 1948 for Southern Technical Institute, a new engineering technology school created by Georgia Tech for former soldiers. Leased from the county by the United States Navy, the airport was converted from military to civilian use from 1957 to 1959. The Naval Air Station subsequently moved to Marietta on the south side of Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Like NAS Atlanta, the Southern Technical Institute moved from PDK in 1958, to land donated by Dobbins. It is now known as Southern Polytechnic State University. Naval Air Station Atlanta was closed by BRAC action in 2009. In 1973 PDK was the site of a Learjet crash, resulting in seven fatalities. It was determined that the crash resulted from "The loss of engine thrust during takeoff due to ingestion of birds by the engines,with the Aircraft striking an apartment building and burning in a complex just south of the Airport. Large flocks of birds were attracted to an adjacent DeKalb county sanitation Landfill (Operational in summer 1962 and finally closed in early 1975)which had become a flight safety issue long before the crash,after several minor Bird strikes in the late 1960s and early 1970s.〔http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19730226-0〕 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「DeKalb–Peachtree Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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