North Carolina - Pitt County Airports




North Carolina - Pitt County Airports

Airport Name	At / Near Town	Type	FAA LID	Year Opened	Year Closed	Comments
1) Al's Airport	Bethel	Private	NR40	2017	-	Per AirNav - activated 8/2017. Owned and operated by Jimmy Rodney Williford.
2) Boyd Field Airport	Grimesland	Private	NC49	1999	-	Per AirNav - activated 5/1999. Owned and operated by Cecil Boyd, Jr.
3) Craft's Airport	Farmville	Private	-	Unk	-	Owned and operated by Rodney Owen.
4) Flanagan Field	Farmville	Private	N08	1989	-	Per AirNav - activated 11/1989. Owned and operated by Harold Flanagan.
5) Marine Corps Out Lying Field Greenville	Greenville	Defunct Military	-	1942	1945	The Greenville Airport was leased by the United States Navy on May 1, 1942, to be an outlying field of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. The field was underutilized until November 30, 1942, when it was announced that it would be upgraded by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The first Marine Corps flying squadrons to arrive were scout bombing squadrons VMSB-343 and VMSB-344 in January 1944. July saw the arrival of fighter squadrons VMF-913 and VMF-914 and October brought the photo reconnaissance squadrons VMD-354 and VMD-954. During the war, MCOLF Greenville was the busiest of MCAS Cherry Point's outlying fields. In 1945, it was returned to the local government and became Pitt-Greenville Municipal Airport (see below).
6) Pitt-Greenville Airport (was Greenville Airport)	Greenville	Primary	PGV	1940	-	Per AirNav - activated 6/1941. The Works Progress Administration constructed the Greenville Airport in 1940 on land that was jointly owned by the city of Greenville and Pitt County. A Civil Pilot training Program operated from the airport until it was leased by the United States Navy on May 1, 1942, to be an outlying field of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point (see above). The airport officially opened the renovated air terminal on February 24, 2011. The $7.9 million expansion was funded by the federal stimulus. It took two years of planning and 18 months of construction.
7) South Oaks Aerodrome	Ayden, Winterville	Private	05N	2005	-	Per AirNav - activated 7/2005. Owned and operated by Charles A. Lewis, Jr. Specialize in tail wheel airplane training.