North Carolina - Guilford County Airports




North Carolina - Guilford County Airports

Airport Name	At / Near Town	Type	FAA LID	Year Opened	Year Closed	Comments
1) Air Harbor Airport	Greensboro	Private	W88	1946	-	Per AirNav - activated 7/1947. Owned and operated by Guilford Lake Aviation. Ron Murphy bought the airport in 1999.
2) Causey Airport	Climax, Julian	Private	2A5	Unk		Owned and operated by Winfield Causey.
3) Clayton Airport, Meadowlark Glider Park	Whitsett	Defunct	-	c.1952	c.2001	The 1953 USGS topo map labeled the field as “Clayton.” It was named for Miles 'Chic' Clayton, the owner-operator, A&P-IA, and pilot that operated this field in the 1960s and 1970s. The August 1976 Cincinnati Sectional Chart depicted Clayton Airport as having a 2,200' unpaved runway. In 1979, Chic left his location in Whitsett and took over the operation of Tuck Airport in South Boston, VA. Clayton Airport later became Meadowlark Gliderport under new management. The 2000 NC Aeronautical Chart depicted Meadowlark Gliderport as a private field having a single 2,200' paved runway. It was evidently closed at some point between 2000-2002, as it was no longer depicted at all on the 2002 Sectional Chart.
4) D.S. Butler Farm and Airfield	Oak Ridge	Private	N83	1975	-	Was Seller's Landing Strip. Per AirNav - activated 8/1975. Owned and operated by D.S. Butler.
5) Greensboro North Airport	Stokesdale, Summerfield	Private	36NC	1998	-	Per AirNav - activated 6/1998. Owned and operated by Hawks Landing Property. Airfield might be in Rockingham County, barely.
6) Kecks Airport	Julian	Private	N88	1953	-	Per AirNav - activated 7/1953. Owned and operated by L.R. Keck.
7) Lindley Army Air Field	Greensboro	Defunct Military	-	1942	1946	In the 1940s, the US Army Air Corps assumed control of the civilian Lindley Field for the duration of WW-II. The airport was a hub for the Overseas Replacement Depot (ORD), a refueling station, and a training site for fighter and bomber pilots. The Army built a second steel hangar and a control tower. The Army Air Corps lengthened the runways and built a new passenger terminal.
8) Lindley Field	Greensboro	Defunct	-	1927	1942	1942, became Lindley Army Air Field. 1946, became Piedmont Triad Airport. Opened May 28, 1927, eight miles west of Greensboro. In 1927, the Tri-City Airport Commission selected 112 acres near the community of Friendship for an airport, and petitioned to become a stop along the congressionally authorized airmail route from New York to New Orleans. Racing pilot Captain Roscoe Turner referred to the airfield as "the best landing field in the south." Friendship, near Greensboro, was selected over neighboring Winston-Salem, which subsequently refused to contribute funds for airport construction and nullified the Tri-City Airport Authority collaborative effor. Greensboro and Guilford County jointly purchased the Friendship property from Paul C. and Helen G. Lindley, and named it Lindley Field in May 1927 with 12,000 people in attendance. The field then had no runways, no lights, no hangar, and no passenger station. Charles Lindbergh stopped at Lindley Field with the "Spirit of St. Louis" on his cross-country tour celebrating the advances of aviation on October 14, 1927. Regular mail service started in 1928. In July 1942, responsibility for the airport was given to the Greensboro-High Point Airport Authority, with representatives from Greensboro, High Point, and Guilford County. Shortly thereafter the Army Air Corps requisitioned the airport and its facilities for war use and airmail and passenger service was discontinued. Later became Piedmont Triad Airport.
9) May Airport	Greensboro	Private	80NC	1969	-	Per AirNav - activated 2/1969. Owned and operated by Becky May. One source claims this airport is closed.
10) McLean Brothers Airport	Gibsonville	Private	59NC	1938	-	Per AirNav - activated 3/1938. Owned and operated Charles E. Moore.
11) Meylor Field Airport	Summerfield	Private	9NC9	1992	-	Per AirNav - activated 3/1992. Owned and operated by Dean Meylor.
12) Piedmont Triad International Airport	Greensboro	Primary	GSO	1946	-	Was Lindley Field, then Lindley Army Air Field, see above. In 1946, the U.S. Army Air Corps turned over the airfield to the Greensboro-High Point Airport Authority and it was named Piedmont Triad Airport. In 1958 a new 34,000-square-foot terminal opened, featuring aircraft gates, a restaurant, bank, operations office and counters for tickets and rental cars. In 1982, a new passenger terminal – the heart of today’s terminal – and the airport’s main runway was extended to 10,000 feet, making it the longest in the state. 1993, the third runway was completed. In 2006, the airport opened an expansion to the North Concourse, which added another 40,000 square feet to the terminal and brought the number of gates to 25. The airport also opened a 43,000 square-foot expansion to the main terminal to accommodate security gates at the north and south concourse. In 2010, the airport opened a 9,000-foot parallel runway, which allowed simultaneous aircraft take-offs and landings at the airport for the first time.
13) Southeast Greensboro Airport	Greensboro	Private	3A4	1979	-	Per AirNav - activated 7/1979. Owned and operated by Jennifer Ward and Andrew Williams.

Airports Found - Virtually Nothing Known Except What's Below
	In the 1970s there was an airstrip just west of the Guilford Court House Battleground Park in Greensboro, NC. It ran almost east-west between Battleground Road (US Hwy 220) and Old Battleground Road, just north of New Garden Road. Info provided in February 2019 by CBB.