North Carolina - Alamance County Airports




North Carolina - Alamance County Airports

Airport Name	At / Near Town	Type	FAA LID	Year Opened	Year Closed	Comments
1) Bully Field Airport	Burlington, Pleasant Grove	Private	22NR	2001	-	Activated 9/2008. Managed by Eric and Kim Minnis.
2) Burlington-Alamance Regional Airport	Burlington	General Aviation	BUY	1943	-	Per AirNav - activated 3/1943. Owned by the Burlington-Alamance Airport Authority.
3) The Duchy Airport	Saxapahaw	Private	5NC5	1986	-	Per AirNav - activated 7/1986. Owned and operated by Duchy Property Owners Association.
4) Fairchild Field (was Huffman Field)	Burlington	Defunct Military	-	1942	1968	After the outbreak of WW-II, the federal government took over the old Burlington Rayon Plant on North Church Street, and moved Fairchild Aircraft Company into it to begin production of a twin-engine training plane, the Fairchild AT-21 Gunner. The factory was located directly across the street from Huffman Field, which the U.S. Army had taken over in 1942 & renamed to Fairchild Field, displacing civilian aircraft operations to a location near Alamance. The first AT-21 was completed at Burlington in 1943. It was only built for a little over a year and then Fairchild vacated the facility in 1944. Fairchild Field continued in operation after WW-II as a civil airport, with a single paved northeast/southwest runway. The 1962 AOPA Airport Directory described Fairchild Field as having a single 3,500' asphalt Runway 4/22, and listed the operator as Alamance Aviation Service, Inc. Fairchild Field closed by 1968.
5) Hinshaw Airport	Snow Camp, Liberty	Private	N61	1971	-	aka Greenacres Airport. Per AirNav - activated 7/1971. Owned and operated by Gene Hinshaw.
6) Huffman Field (aka Huffman Airport)	Burlington	Defunct	-	1931	1942	According to an article from the 9/4/93 issue of the Burlington Times, the first plane landed at this location in 1919, and Glenn Huffman and Dover Fogleman built an airfield here in 1931. Huffman Field was formally dedicated 7/3/33, as commemorated by a postmark. The 1934 Department of Commerce Airfield Directory described Huffman Field as a commercial airport with two 1,800' sod runways, and two hangars were said to be located on the northwest corner of the field. In 1942, the airfield was taken over by the U.S. Army Air Force and renamed to Fairchild Field (see above).
7) Hurdle Field	Mebane	Private	4W7	1966	-	Per AirNav - activated 9/1966. Owned and operated by J.H. Hurdle, Jr. One source asserts this airfield is closed.
8) Kimrey Airport	Hawfields	Private	7NC6	Unk	-	Owned and operated by William R. Kimrey.