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Laurinburg–Maxton Airport is a public use airport located three miles (5 km) north of the central business district of Maxton and east of Laurinburg. Maxton is located primarily in Robeson County, North Carolina, USA while Laurinburg is in Scotland County, North Carolina, USA as is the airport proper. This general aviation airport covers and has two runways. It is home of the United States Army Parachute team Golden Knights.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Laurinburg–Maxton Airport (official site) ) 〕 Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Laurinburg–Maxton Airport is assigned MEB by the FAA〔 and MXE by the IATA〔(Great Circle Mapper: MXE/KMEB – Maxton, North Carolina (Laurinburg–Maxton Airport) )〕 (which assigned MEB to Essendon Airport in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia).〔(Great Circle Mapper: MEB/YMEN – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Essendon Airport) )〕 The airport's ICAO identifier is KMEB.〔〔(AirNav: KMEB – Laurinburg–Maxton Airport )〕 The airfield was constructed for the United States Army Air Force during World War II. During the war the airfield was a large training base for glider-towing aircraft. Today the airfield is noted for being the home of Charlotte Aircraft, a company which parts-out and scraps older aircraft. Visitors to the airfield can see a number of 727s, DC-10s, and other aircraft in various stages of being dismantled and scrapped. In 2006 the forward fuselage of Northwest Airline’s first 747-100 was removed from the aircraft at Maxton by Guard-Lee for installation in the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington DC. The remainder of the aircraft was scrapped and parted by Charlotte Aircraft at Laurinburg–Maxton Airport. == References == 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「Laurinburg–Maxton Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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