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.latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Craig_Air_Force_Base&params=32_20_38_N_086_59_16_W_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">32°20′38″N</span> <span class="longitude">086°59′16″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">32.34389°N 86.98778°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">32.34389; -86.98778</span></span></span></a></span></span></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Craig_Field_Alabama_1942_photo_pictorial.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Craig_Field_Alabama_1942_photo_pictorial.pdf/page1-262px-Craig_Field_Alabama_1942_photo_pictorial.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="262" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Craig_Field_Alabama_1942_photo_pictorial.pdf/page1-393px-Craig_Field_Alabama_1942_photo_pictorial.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Craig_Field_Alabama_1942_photo_pictorial.pdf/page1-524px-Craig_Field_Alabama_1942_photo_pictorial.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="766" /></a><figcaption>Craig Field 1942 classbook</figcaption></figure> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p><b>Craig Air Force Base</b> near <a href="/wiki/Selma,_Alabama" title="Selma, Alabama">Selma, Alabama</a>, was a <a href="/wiki/U.S._Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Air Force">U.S. Air Force</a> undergraduate pilot training (UPT) installation that closed in 1977. Today the facility is a civilian airport known as <a href="/wiki/Craig_Field_(airport)" title="Craig Field (airport)">Craig Field</a> Airport and Industrial Complex (ICAO: KSEM; FAA: SEM). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Craig_Air_Force_Base&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Craig_Air_Force_Base&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Originally built by <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Corps of Engineers">U.S. Army Corps of Engineers</a> for the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Air_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Air Corps">U.S. Army Air Corps</a> in 1940 to accommodate the growing number of flight trainees before <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Craig Field was one of the first training fields to offer single-engine training. Its first graduating class of 1941, the 39 cadets of Class 41D, completed the training course seven months before the United States' entry into World War II.<sup id="cite_ref-cfws_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cfws-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The naming of the base was important to the nearby city of Selma, and several names were considered. The name finally chosen was to honor 1st Lt Bruce Kilpatrick Craig, who was killed when his <a href="/wiki/B-24_Liberator" class="mw-redirect" title="B-24 Liberator">B-24 Liberator</a> bomber crashed in June 1941. Craig was born in Selma and was initially commissioned as an officer in the Infantry Reserve prior to transferring to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Air_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Air Forces">U.S. Army Air Forces</a> and attending flight training. <sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_cfws"><a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Air_Force_Base#endnote_cfws">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>Army Air Forces pilot training through the first eleven months of 1941 was still considered as being peacetime and included a seventy-hour flying course. With the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, training was accelerated to speed the flow of pilots into combat. In total Craig Field graduated more than 9,000 pilots before the end of the war. Craig Field also saw a number of British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> trainees. By 1943, 1,392 RAF cadets had earned their wings at Craig Field. Following the war, the mission of Craig Field changed from time to time, but it remained primarily a flight training base.<sup id="cite_ref-cfws_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cfws-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the U.S. Air Force was established as a separate service in 1947, Craig Field was renamed Craig Air Force Base. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cold_War">Cold War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Craig_Air_Force_Base&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cold War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the desperate need for additional pilots created by the Korean War, Craig AFB was once again placed in the pilot training business by initiating the 3615th Pilot Training Wing in September 1950. The program stopped its basic single engine training and focused its efforts on pilot instructor training.<sup id="cite_ref-cfws_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cfws-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1972, the by then-3615th Flying Training Wing was replaced by the 29th Flying Training Wing of the <a href="/wiki/Air_Training_Command" title="Air Training Command">Air Training Command</a> and operated <a href="/wiki/T-41_Mescalero" class="mw-redirect" title="T-41 Mescalero">T-41</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cessna_T-37" class="mw-redirect" title="Cessna T-37">T-37</a> and <a href="/wiki/T-38_Talon" class="mw-redirect" title="T-38 Talon">T-38</a> training aircraft. </p><p>Representative of the time, Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 68-H, "The Haranguers," graduated with more than 50 new pilots in June 1968. Most of the pilots entered the "pipeline" for assignments to Vietnam in a variety of aircraft, including the <a href="/wiki/F-4_Phantom_II" class="mw-redirect" title="F-4 Phantom II">F-4C</a> and <a href="/wiki/F-4E" class="mw-redirect" title="F-4E">F-4E</a> Phantom II, <a href="/wiki/RF-4C" class="mw-redirect" title="RF-4C">RF-4C</a> Phantom II, <a href="/wiki/C-47_Skytrain" class="mw-redirect" title="C-47 Skytrain">EC-47 Skytrain</a> and <a href="/wiki/AC-47_Spooky" class="mw-redirect" title="AC-47 Spooky">AC-47 Spooky</a> gunship, <a href="/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-4_Caribou" title="De Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou">C-7 Caribou</a> and <a href="/wiki/C-123_Provider" class="mw-redirect" title="C-123 Provider">C-123 Provider</a>. Other pilots went to <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_C-130_Hercules" title="Lockheed C-130 Hercules">Lockheed C-130 Hercules</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_C-141_Starlifter" title="Lockheed C-141 Starlifter">Lockheed C-141 Starlifter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress" title="Boeing B-52 Stratofortress">Boeing B-52 Stratofortress</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boeing_KC-135_Stratotanker" title="Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker">Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker</a> assignments. In addition to Air Force student pilots, the class included students from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">U.S. Marine Corps</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Air_National_Guard" title="Air National Guard">Air National Guard</a> and the then-<a href="/wiki/Imperial_Iranian_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Iranian Air Force">Imperial Iranian Air Force</a>. </p><p>As an active air force base, Craig had two 8,000-foot parallel runways, a large aircraft parking ramp and several large maintenance hangars. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Closure">Closure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Craig_Air_Force_Base&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Closure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1974, Craig AFB was selected as one of two UPT bases to be closed in a post-Vietnam economic move. In 1977, <a href="/wiki/Air_Training_Command" title="Air Training Command">Air Training Command</a> closed Craig Air Force Base along with <a href="/wiki/Webb_Air_Force_Base" title="Webb Air Force Base">Webb Air Force Base</a> in Texas. The base's 29th Flying Training Wing was inactivated on 30 September 1977 and the field was placed on caretaker status the next day.<sup id="cite_ref-cfws_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cfws-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_use">Current use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Craig_Air_Force_Base&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Current use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the base closed, the airfield was converted into a civil airport for Selma, Alabama, and renamed the Craig Field Airport and Industrial Complex. Although the former USAF air traffic control tower at Craig Field remains standing, as of 2007 it was unmanned and non-operational, with <a href="/wiki/UNICOM" title="UNICOM">UNICOM</a> being used as a common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF). Both parallel 8,000-foot runways still exist, but only one runway is currently operational while the other remains closed. The Craig <a href="/wiki/VORTAC" class="mw-redirect" title="VORTAC">VORTAC</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Instrument_Landing_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Instrument Landing System">Instrument Landing System</a> (ILS) for the current Runway 33 remain operational on the field. Current aircraft traffic averages approximately 106 daily operations, of which 83% are transient general aviation, 10% military (primarily Army, Navy and USAF training aircraft from bases in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi) and 7% local general aviation or air taxi. </p><p>The former military family housing was sold to individual owners shortly after base closure and has seen significant decay as compared to its previous military occupants.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Multiple civilian government and corporate tenants have taken up residency. One of these, <a href="/wiki/L3_Technologies" title="L3 Technologies">L3 Communications</a>/Vertex Aerospace (formerly Raytheon Aerospace), ran an aircraft maintenance and repair operations (MRO) facility focused on supporting Navy <a href="/wiki/Beechcraft_T-34_Mentor" title="Beechcraft T-34 Mentor">Beechcraft T-34 Mentor</a> (T-34Cs), <a href="/wiki/Beechcraft_King_Air" title="Beechcraft King Air">T-44</a>A, <a href="/wiki/Beechcraft_C-12_Huron" title="Beechcraft C-12 Huron">TC-12</a>F and Navy and USAF <a href="/wiki/T-6A" class="mw-redirect" title="T-6A">T-6A</a> aircraft until 2007 when the facility was closed by the then-L3 Corporation, now <a href="/wiki/L3Harris" title="L3Harris">L3Harris</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The former on base elementary school continues to operate as the civilian-run Craig Elementary and the former base golf course continues to operate commercially as the Craig Golf Course and Driving Range. The <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Highway_Patrol" title="Alabama Highway Patrol">Alabama Highway Patrol</a> (AHP) also operates both its training academy and its headquarters for AHP's F Troop at Craig Field. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Units_assigned">Units assigned</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Craig_Air_Force_Base&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Units assigned"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>67th Air Base Group (later 67th Service Group) 16 December 1940-c. October 1942</li> <li>Air Corps Advanced Flying School (Single Engine) (later Army Air Forces Flying School (Advanced) c. 1 August 1941 – 15 December 1945</li> <li>53d Air Base Group, c. 1 August 1941 – November 1941</li> <li>73d Air Base Group, c. 1 August 1941-c. November 1941</li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_Flying_Training_Wing_(U.S._Army_Air_Forces)" title="28th Flying Training Wing (U.S. Army Air Forces)">28th Flying Training Wing</a>, 8 January 1943-c. 1 August 1945</li> <li>2138th AAF Base Unit, 1 May 1944 – 15 December 1945</li> <li>44th AAF Base Unit (later 44th AF Base Unit), 16 December 1945 – 17 November 1947</li> <li>501st Air University Wing, 17 November 1947 – 28 July 1948</li> <li>3840th Air University Wing (later <a href="/w/index.php?title=3615th_Pilot_Training_Wing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3615th Pilot Training Wing (page does not exist)">3615th Pilot Training Wing</a>, 3615th Flying Training Wing, 3615th Pilot Training Wing), 21 July 1948 – 1 July 1972<sup id="cite_ref-cfws_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cfws-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>USAF Pilot Instructor School (later Pilot Instructor School), 1 September 1950 – 1 September 1960</li> <li>USAF Pilot School, 5 January 1961 – 30 September 1977</li> <li>USAF Primary Pilot Instructor School, 1 September 1960 – 1 September 1961</li> <li><a href="/wiki/29th_Flying_Training_Wing" title="29th Flying Training Wing">29th Flying Training Wing</a> – 29 March 1972 to 30 September 1977<sup class="plainlinks nourlexpansion citation" id="ref_cfws"><a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Air_Force_Base#endnote_cfws">[2]</a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><a href="/wiki/43d_Flying_Training_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="43d Flying Training Squadron">43d Flying Training Squadron</a> – 1 July 1972 to 30 September 1977<sup id="cite_ref-43TSC_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43TSC-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd><a href="/wiki/52d_Flying_Training_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="52d Flying Training Squadron">52d Flying Training 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.craigcomplex.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=5">the original</a> on 2 November 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=History+of+Craig+Field&rft.au=Craig+Field+Airport+and+Industrial+Complex&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.craigcomplex.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D5%26Itemid%3D5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACraig+Air+Force+Base" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.selmatimesjournal.com/2006/07/27/l-3-vertex-aerospace-closes/">https://www.selmatimesjournal.com/2006/07/27/l-3-vertex-aerospace-closes/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43TSC-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43TSC_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAir_Force_Historical_Research_Agency" class="citation web cs1">Air Force Historical Research Agency. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070714111048/http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afhra/rso/squadrons_flights_pages/0043fts.html">"43d Flying Training Squadron"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afhra/rso/squadrons_flights_pages/0043fts.html">the original</a> on 14 July 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=43d+Flying+Training+Squadron&rft.au=Air+Force+Historical+Research+Agency&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maxwell.af.mil%2Fau%2Fafhra%2Frso%2Fsquadrons_flights_pages%2F0043fts.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACraig+Air+Force+Base" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ol><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_afhra-52fts"><b><a href="#ref_afhra-52fts">^</a></b></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/rso/squadrons_flights_pages/0052fts.html">52d Flying 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L. Sonny Callahan Airport">Callahan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camden_Municipal_Airport" title="Camden Municipal Airport">Camden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centre_Municipal_Airport" title="Centre Municipal Airport">Centre Municipal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centre%E2%80%93Piedmont%E2%80%93Cherokee_County_Regional_Airport" title="Centre–Piedmont–Cherokee County Regional Airport">Centre–Piedmont–Cherokee County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilton_County_Airport" title="Chilton County Airport">Chilton County–Gragg/Wade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton_Municipal_Airport_(Alabama)" title="Clayton Municipal Airport (Alabama)">Clayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courtland_Airport" title="Courtland Airport">Courtland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folsom_Field_(Alabama)" title="Folsom Field (Alabama)">Cullman–Folsom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dauphin_Island_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Dauphin Island Airport">Dauphin Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demopolis_Municipal_Airport" title="Demopolis Municipal Airport">Demopolis–Sawyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Downer_Airport" title="George Downer Airport">Downer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Edwards_Airport" title="Jack Edwards Airport">Gulf Shores-Jack Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enterprise_Municipal_Airport_(Alabama)" title="Enterprise Municipal Airport (Alabama)">Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florala_Municipal_Airport" title="Florala Municipal Airport">Florala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foley_Municipal_Airport" title="Foley Municipal Airport">Foley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Folsom_Airport" title="Carl Folsom Airport">Folsom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Field_(Alabama)" title="Franklin Field (Alabama)">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geneva_Municipal_Airport" title="Geneva Municipal Airport">Geneva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greensboro_Municipal_Airport" title="Greensboro Municipal Airport">Greensboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grove_Hill_Municipal_Airport" title="Grove Hill Municipal Airport">Grove Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guntersville_Municipal_Airport" title="Guntersville Municipal Airport">Guntersville–Starnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartselle%E2%80%93Morgan_County_Regional_Airport" title="Hartselle–Morgan County Regional Airport">Hartselle–Morgan County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Headland_Municipal_Airport" title="Headland Municipal Airport">Headland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntsville_Executive_Airport" title="Huntsville Executive Airport">Huntsville Executive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isbell_Field" title="Isbell Field">Isbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Municipal_Airport_(Alabama)" title="Jackson Municipal Airport (Alabama)">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanett_Municipal_Airport" title="Lanett Municipal Airport">Lanett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mac_Crenshaw_Memorial_Airport" title="Mac Crenshaw Memorial Airport">Mac Crenshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_County_%E2%80%93_Rankin_Fite_Airport" title="Marion County – Rankin Fite Airport">Marion County–Fite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middleton_Field" title="Middleton Field">Middleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe_County_Airport_(Alabama)" title="Monroe County Airport (Alabama)">Monroe County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moton_Field_Municipal_Airport" title="Moton Field Municipal Airport">Moton Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Pickens_Airport" title="North Pickens Airport">North Pickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Alabama_Regional_Airport" title="Northeast Alabama Regional Airport">Northeast Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Posey_Field" title="Posey Field">Posey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prattville%E2%80%93Grouby_Field" title="Prattville–Grouby Field">Prattville–Grouby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pryor_Field_Regional_Airport" title="Pryor Field Regional Airport">Pryor Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roanoke_Municipal_Airport" title="Roanoke Municipal Airport">Roanoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robbins_Field" title="Robbins Field">Robbins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_C._Russell_Field" title="Thomas C. Russell Field">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russellville_Municipal_Airport" title="Russellville Municipal Airport">Russellville–Pugh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Elmo_Airport" title="St. Elmo Airport">St. Elmo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottsboro_Municipal_Airport" title="Scottsboro Municipal Airport">Scottsboro–Word</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelby_County_Airport_(Alabama)" title="Shelby County Airport (Alabama)">Shelby County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Alabama_Regional_Airport" title="South Alabama Regional Airport">South Alabama–Benton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylacauga_Municipal_Airport" title="Sylacauga Municipal Airport">Sylacauga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talladega_Municipal_Airport" title="Talladega Municipal Airport">Talladega</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaiden_Field_Airport" title="Vaiden Field Airport">Vaiden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walker_County_Airport" title="Walker County Airport">Walker–Bevill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weedon_Field" title="Weedon Field">Weedon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wetumpka_Municipal_Airport" title="Wetumpka Municipal Airport">Wetumpka</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Public use</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Addison_Municipal_Airport" title="Addison Municipal Airport">Addison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ardmore_Airport_(Alabama)" title="Ardmore Airport (Alabama)">Ardmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_Springs%E2%80%93Winston_County_Airport" title="Double Springs–Winston County Airport">Double Springs–Winston County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eutaw_Municipal_Airport" title="Eutaw Municipal Airport">Eutaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_River_Seaplane_Base" title="Fish River Seaplane Base">Fish River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Deposit%E2%80%93Lowndes_County_Airport" title="Fort Deposit–Lowndes County Airport">Fort Deposit–Lowndes County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazel_Green_Airport" title="Hazel Green Airport">Hazel Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubbard_Landing_Seaplane_Base" title="Hubbard Landing Seaplane Base">Hubbard Landing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Jones_Field" title="Freddie Jones Field">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamar_County_Airport" title="Lamar County Airport">Lamar County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logan_Field_(Alabama)" title="Logan Field (Alabama)">Logan–Samson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McMinn_Airport" title="McMinn Airport">McMinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moontown_Airport" title="Moontown Airport">Moontown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moundville_Airport" title="Moundville Airport">Moundville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pine_Hill_Municipal_Airport" title="Pine Hill Municipal Airport">Pine Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_E._Ray_Airport" title="Roy E. 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