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Crisp County-Cordele Airport 
IATA: CKF – ICAO: KCKF – FAA LID: CKF Summary Airport type Public Owner Crisp County Serves Cordele, Georgia Location Crisp County, near Cordele, Georgia Elevation AMSL 310 ft / 94 m Coordinates 31°59′20″N 083°46′26″W / 31.98889°N 83.77389°W Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 10/28 5,001 1,524 Asphalt 5/23 5,006 1,526 Asphalt Statistics (2008) Aircraft operations 26,100 Based aircraft 17 Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] 
Crisp County-Cordele AirportCrisp County-Cordele Airport, GeorgiaCrisp County-Cordele Airport (IATA: CKF, ICAO: KCKF, FAA LID: CKF) is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of the central business district of Cordele, in Crisp County, Georgia, United States.[1] The airport serves the general aviation community, with no scheduled commercial airline service.
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History
Opened to the public in March 1943, during World War II, the airport was requisitioned by the United States Army Air Force, and was known as Cordele Army Airfield. It was also known as Turner AAF Auxiliary Airfield No. 7. The airfield supported the AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine) school at Turner Army Airfield.
It was closed in mid-1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. Declared surplus, it was turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on 30 September 1945 and eventually discharged to the War Assets Administration (WAA) to become a civil airport.
Facilities and aircraft
Crisp County-Cordele Airport covers an area of 619 acres (251 ha) at an elevation of 310 feet (94 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 10/28 is 5,001 by 150 feet (1,524 x 46 m) and 5/23 is 5,006 by 100 feet (1,526 x 30 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending June 9 2008, the airport had 26,100 aircraft operations, an average of 71 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% military. At that time there were 17 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single-engine and 6% multi-engine.[1]
See also
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.- Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.
- Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942-2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ASIN: B000NYX3PC
- Shettle, M. L. (2005), Georgia's Army Airfields of World War II. ISBN 0-9643388-3-1
External links
- FAA Terminal Procedures for CKF, effective 20 October 2011
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for CKF
- ASN accident history for CKF
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for CKF
- Crisp County, Georgia
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