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McKellar–Sipes Regional Airport is a public use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) west of the central business district of Jackson, a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States.〔 It is owned by the city and county.〔 The airport is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. SeaPort Airlines began its services to Memphis and Nashville on January 22, 2012. As per the Federal Aviation Administration, this airport had 134 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 1,502 in 2009, and 2,545 in 2010.〔 〕 The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''general aviation'' airport based on 2008/2009 enplanements (the ''commercial service'' category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).〔 〕 ==History== The airport opened in 1942 as McKellar Field and was assigned to the United States Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center (later the Eastern Flying Training Command) as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield. There were also two local axillary airfields for emergency and overflow landings. The airfield began training flying cadets under contract to Georgia Air Services, Inc. Flying training was performed with Fairchild PT-19s as the primary trainer. It also had several PT-17 Stearmans assigned. The facility was inactivated on October 16, 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. It was declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on September 30, 1945. Eventually it was discharged to the War Assets Administration (WAA) and became a civil airport. 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「McKellar–Sipes Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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