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Greenville Downtown Airport is three miles east of Greenville, in Greenville County, South Carolina. It is owned by the Greenville Airport Commission.〔 The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''general aviation'' facility.〔 〕 ==History== GMU opened in 1928 as Greenville Municipal Airport. In 1930 it received its first airmail flight; Eastern Airlines began scheduled flights in the late 1930s and Delta Airlines arrived in 1945. During World War II the United States Army Air Forces used the airfield for training. The airport was used jointly by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command) as a contract glider training school, operated by Southern Airways, Inc from 1941 until mid-1943. The airport was then reassigned to Air Technical Service Command and used as a supply and maintenance depot until being returned to full civil control in October 1945. In 1954 Charles Lindbergh dedicated the new terminal. Until 1962 GMU (then GRL) was the commercial airport for the Greenville area; in April 1957 it had 13 weekday departures on Eastern, four on Delta and four on Southern. Eastern had one nonstop to Richmond, but no other nonstops out of Greenville exceeded 200 miles. The airport was replaced by the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport which opened October 15, 1962. It was from this airport that the fatal flight of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Convair 240 departed on October 20, 1977. The recently renovated terminal won a national award. 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「Greenville Downtown Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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