North Carolina - Chowan County Airports




North Carolina - Chowan County Airports

Airport Name	At / Near Town	Type	FAA LID	Year Opened	Year Closed	Comments
1) Lee's Airport	Rockhock	Private	16NC	1994	-	Per AirNav - activated 1/1994. Owned and operated by Lee Sundstrom.
2) Marine Corps Air Station Edenton	Edenton	Defunct Military	-	1943	1946	Per AirNav - activated 6/1943. The airport was originally constructed during World War II by the United States Navy as Marine Corps Air Station Edenton. In this role, it hosted Marine Operational Training Group 81 (MOTG-81) and its subordinate squadrons. MOTG-81 trained pilots, aircrewmen and ground crews on the land-based PBJ-1 medium bomber, a U.S. Navy / U.S. Marine Corps variant of the U.S. Army Air Forces' B-25 Mitchell bomber that was operated by Marine bombing squadrons, primarily in the Pacific theater. In 1946, it was renamed to Naval Auxiliary Air Station Edenton, see below.
3) Naval Auxiliary Air Station Edenton	Edenton	Defunct Military	-	1946	1960	Was Marine Corps Air Station Edenton (above). It was operationally administered by Marine Air Base Squadron 14 (MABS-14), hosting Marine Corps fighter squadrons flying the F9F-2 Panther and attack squadrons flying the AD-4B and AD-5 Skyraider during the Korean War and early years of the Cold War. NAAS Edenton was decommissioned in 1960 and turned over to the local government for conversion to a civilian airport - became Northeastern Regional Airport, see below.
4) Northeastern Regional Airport	Edenton	General Aviation	EDE	1960	-	Earlier - Marine Corps Air Station Edenton (see above), then Naval Auxiliary Air Station Edenton (see above). The airport was originally constructed during World War II by the United States Navy as Marine Corps Air Station Edenton. NAAS Edenton was decommissioned in 1960 and turned over to the local government for conversion to a civilian airport. Currently owned and operated by the City of Edenton.