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Grimes Field is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the central business district of Urbana, a city in Champaign County, Ohio, United States.〔 Named for Warren G. Grimes, it is also known as Urbana Municipal Airport and it serves general aviation traffic.〔(History of Warren Grimes and Grimes Field )〕 The airport is home to the Champaign Aviation Museum.〔(Champaign Aviation Museum )〕 It also houses a project to rebuild a World War II era B-17 Medium Bomber called the Champaign Lady. The B-17 Project website shows the progress and has a live web camera in the hangar where the aircraft is stored. Volunteers work on it Monday through Saturday.〔(B-17 Project )〕 As of 01Feb2015 the airport manager is Louis M Driever. == Facilities and aircraft == Grimes Field covers an area of at an elevation of 1,068 feet (326 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,400 by 100 feet (1,341 x 30 m).〔 For the 12-month period ending June 7, 2007, the airport had 23,480 aircraft operations, an average of 64 per day: 96% general aviation, 2% military and 2% air taxi, At that time there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 72% single-engine, 11% multi-engine, 6% helicopter and 11% ultralight.〔 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「Grimes Field」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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