Aviation in Alabama
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Aviation in Alabama
| Aviation in Alabama | |
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| Aviation in the United States | |
 Alabama State Flag |
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| Airports | |
| Commercial Service - Primary Airports | 4 |
| Commercial Service - Non-Primary Airports | 1 |
| General Aviation Airports | 65 |
| Other Public-Use Airports | 24 |
| Military Airports-Other | 9 |
| First Flight | |
| 10 March, 1910 | |
Alabama's first aeronautical event was on 10 March 1910 with the flight of a Wright biplane flown by Orville Wright in Montgomery, Alabama.[1]
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Events
- 1909: E.T. Odum brings a aircraft to the Alabama State Fair.[2]
- 15 March 1910: Orville and Wilbur Wright establish the first powered flight school in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1931: Steadham Acker starts the National Air Carnival series of air shows at Birmingham Municipal Airport.
- 10 July 1991: L'Express Airlines Flight 508 crashed at Birmingham Municipal Airport.
Aircraft Manufacturers
- Boeing manufactures the Delta IV rocket in Decatur, Alabama.
- Continental Motors, Inc., Mobile, Alabama 1929- Major producer of aircraft engines for general aviation aircraft.
Aerospace
73,000 jobs are based in Alabama in support of aerospace. [3]
- National Space Science and Technology Center a joint research venture between NASA and the seven research universities of the state of Alabama.
Airports
Commercial Service
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport provides air service with 1.4 million operations annually.
Organizations
Government and Military
- All flight operations in Alabama are conducted within FAA oversight.
- Maxwell Air Force Base is the headquarters of Air University (United States Air Force).
- The Redstone Arsenal supports missile and space operations.
- The Marshall Space Flight Center supports NASA operations.
- The U. S. Army Air Corps' Tuskegee Airmen were trained at Tuskegee, Alabama
- The Alabama State Trooper Aviation Unit was formed in 1975 using four TH-13 Sioux and one Cessna 182. The unit currently operates one Bell 206L, one Bell 407, seven OH-58 helicopters and three Cessna 182’s, a Piper Navajo and King Air 200.[4]
- Cullman City Police Department operates two OH-58, Dale County Sheriff's Office operates 3 OH-58's, Etowah County Sheriff's Office operates one OH-58 and one Cessna 172, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office operates two OH-58's, Limestone County Alabama Sheriff's Office operates one OH-58, Morgan County Sheriff's Office operates one OH-58, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Aviation Unit operates two OH-58's, Tuscaloosa Alabama Police Department operates two OH-58's[5]
Museums
- The Southern Museum of Flight is located in Birmingham, Alabama and houses the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame.
- The United States Army Aviation Museum is located on Fort Rucker near Ozark, Alabama.
- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is located in Huntsville, Alabama
See also Category: Aerospace museums in Alabama
Gallery
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James Meissner, World War I flying ace and Birmingham resident
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A group of Tuskegee Airmen posing with a P-40 during World War II
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Aircraft at the Redstone Army Airfield in Huntsville
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Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport
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Lockheed A-12 at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham
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Wernher von Braun posing with the Saturn V's S-IC engines in Huntsville
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Space Shuttle Pathfinder at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville
References
- ^ "encyclopedia of Alabama". http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1364. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- ^ Don Dodd, Amy Bartlett-Dodd. Deep South Aviation.
- ^ "Aerospace". http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1802. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- ^ "Alabama State Troopers Aviation Unit". http://www.justhelicopters.com/HELIARTICLES/tabid/433/ID/7345/Alabama-State-Troopers-Aviation-Unit.aspx. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- ^ "Police Helicopter Unit". http://www.policehelicopterpilot.com/police-sheriff-aviation-units/. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
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