South Carolina - Greenwood County Airports




South Carolina - Greenwood County Airports

Airport Name	At / Near Town	Type	FAA LID	Year Opened	Year Closed	Comments
1) Greenwood Municipal Airport #1	Greenwood	Defunct	-	1929	c.1935	Greenwood Municipal Airport #1 was dedicated on the evening of 6/19/29. It depicted the field as having a single unpaved northeast/southwest runway.
2) Greenwood Municipal Airport #2 (Johnson Field)	Greenwood	Defunct	-	c.1935	c.1953	The second Greenwood Municipal Airport, aka Johnson Field (1942-1945), and later referred to as Chinquapin Airport (1945-1948) (see below), was constructed with funds provided by the Works Progress Administration in the 1935-36 time period and had two grass or dirt runways, reportedly 2,300' & 2,000' long.
3) Chinquapin Airport	Greenwood	Defunct	-	1945	1948	Chinquapin Airport was closed, the property sold in 1948 and the land was redeveloped into a housing development. The hangars at the airport were moved to the new airport. The runways were subsequently converted into streets. One runway is now Marietta Drive, and the other is Westgate Drive, with houses built along each side of the streets.
4) Coronaco Army Air Field	Greenwood	Defunct Military	-	1943	1945	Opened in November 1943 as a United States Army Air Force military airfield supporting B-25 Mitchell medium bomber training for Third Air Force.
5) Greenwood County Airport	Greenwood	General Aviation	GRD	1947	-	Was Coronaco Army Air Field. Owned and operated by Greenwood County.