Cross City Airport

Coordinates: 29°38′07.90″N 083°06′17.10″W / 29.635528°N 83.10475°W / 29.635528; -83.10475

Cross City Airport
6 February 1999
IATA: CTY – ICAO: KCTY – FAA LID: CTY
Summary
Airport type		Public use
Owner		Dixie County Board of Commissioners
Operator		Clint Beauchamp
Serves		Cross City, Florida
Location		Dixie County, Florida
Elevation AMSL		42 ft / 13 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
4/22	5,005	1,525	Asphalt
13/31	5,001	1,524	Asphalt
Statistics (2000)
Aircraft operations			18,000
Based aircraft			11
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Cross County Army Airfield, 1944

Cross City Airport (IATA: CTY, ICAO: KCTY, FAA LID: CTY) is a public-use airport located 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the central business district of the town of Cross City in Dixie County, Florida, United States. The airport is publicly owned.^[1] It was used by the United States Air Force under the name of Cross City Air Force Station

History

Main article: Cross City Air Force Station

The airport was opened as a public airfield in April, 1940. In August 1942, the facility was requisitioned by the United States Army Air Forces as a World War II military airfield, and was named Cross City Army Airfield. The airfield was assigned as a training base to the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics (AAFSAT), 50th Fighter Group, headquartered at Orlando Army Air Base.

After the war, the airfield was returned to civil control. However, in the 1950s, the United States Air Force re-established a RADAR facility on the airport under the operational control of the 891st Radar Squadron of the Air Defense Command (ADC). This facility remained at Cross City Air Force Station and was part of the ADC's 20th Air Division from 1959 to 1969 when the facility was closed.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} FAA Airport Master Record for CTY (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2008-02-14
2. ^ USAFHRA Document 00463594

External links

• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for CTY
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for CTY