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Airport Directory » China » Lanzhou » Lanzhou AirportWright Army Airfield (IATA: LIY, ICAO: KLHW, FAA LID: LHW) is a armed forces airport turn up at Fort Stewart, near the town of Hinesville in Liberty County, Georgia, United States.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter place identifier for the FAA and IATA, Wright Army Airfield is portioned LHW by the FAA and LIY by the IATA (which allotted LHW to Lanzhou, Gansu, China). The airport's ICAO identifier is KLHW.
Facilities
Wright Army Airfield has 4 landing track:
- Runway 6L/24R: 5,010 x 100 foot. (1,527 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
- Runway 6R/24L: 2,605 x 100 foot. (794 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
- Runway 15L/33R: 5,000 x 150 foot. (1,524 x 46 m), Surface: Asphalt
- Runway 15R/33L: 2,518 x 100 foot. (767 x 30 m), Surface: Asphalt
History
In early 1942, building set about on an field at Camp Stewart. Camp Stewart Army Airfield was also known as Liberty Airfield for its Georgia county place. The installation was rather little with 2 5,000-ft. Landing track, about a twelve and a one-half hardstands, and barracks for 50 military officers and 300 adult male.
On one January 1943, the Air Technical Service Command fourth Tow Target Detachment travel to the new finished field from Atlanta Army Airfield with a missionary post of towage forward pass marks for anti-aircraft heavy weapon grooming, with the field getting a sub-base of Atlanta, with the 142d Army Air Force Base Unit being the host unit.. The Detachment's aircraft dwell of a mixture of aircraft, dwelling of the Douglas A-20 Havoc, Beech C-43 Staggerwing, Taylorcraft L-2 Grasshopper, Beech AT-7, Douglas A-24 Dauntless, Curtiss A-25 Helldiver, and the B-34 Lexington. In October, 15 Women Army Service Pilots (WASP) set about a 90-day course of instruction in the functioning of wireless commanded marks while airplane piloting A-24 and A-25 aircraft.
The extremum utilisation of Stewart AAF took location in the springtime of 1944, during the build up for the invasion of Europe when over 55,000 adult male were present. In addition to anti-aircraft heavy weapon grooming, Stewart AAF also prepared prepares and bakers as good as postal units. The cantonment also had a POW deepen for Germans and Italians captured in North Africa. The POWs were put to work on the cantonment's building labors and local farms. By the springtime of 1945, the cantonment was virtually empty except for the POW deepen. On March 25, 1945, the field deactivated and the Detachment reassigned to Chatham AAF.
Following the finish of the conflict, the Army used Camp Stewart as a separation heart for a short period of clip before deactivating it on 30 September 1945.
In the postwar yr, the Army applied the cantonment during the summertime for the preparation of National Guard units. Camp Stewart re-opened during the Korean War for preparation of the third Army's anti-aircraft artillery unit. In 1953, the preparation of armour units was added. In 1959, the Army do the station a lasting United States Army installation, denominated it as an Armor and Artillery Training Center, renaming it Fort Stewart. Camp Stewart Army Airfield was renamed Wright Army Airfield and used as a armed forces airport within the Fort Stewart installation.
During the Vietnam War, the field prepared eggbeater airplane pilots. When the Air Force closed Hunter AFB in 1967, the Army took it over as a sub-base of Fort Stewart and constituted a Flight Training Center. With the finish of the Vietnam War Fort Stewart got idle once more. That stopped with the reactivation of the 24th Infantry Division at Stewart in 1974. In 1996, the third Infantry Division touch off and stays at Fort Stewart currently, with Wright Army Airfield being an operational division of the installation.
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