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{{Short description|Airport in Madison County, Mississippi}}

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| image = Bruce Campbell Field - Mississippi.jpg| caption = USGS 2006 orthophoto| IATA = DXE| ICAO = KMBO| FAA = MBO| type = Public| owner = City of Madison| operator = | city-served = Madison, Mississippi| location = | elevation-f = 326| website = 32199011region:US-MS_scale:10000|display=inline,title}}| pushpin_map = USA Mississippi#USA| pushpin_mapsize = 150| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Mississippi| pushpin_label = MBO| pushpin_label_position = right| r1-number = 17/35| r1-length-f = 4,444| r1-surface = Asphalt| stat-year = 2011| stat1-header = Aircraft operations| stat1-data = 48,660| stat2-header = Based aircraft| stat2-data = 63Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport>ID=MBOown=PU|site=11323.*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective August 25, 2011.}}Bruce Campbell Field {{airport codes|DXE|KMBO|MBO|}} is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of the central business district of Madison, a city in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport.WEB,www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf, 2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB), National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, Federal Aviation Administration, October 4, 2010, dead,www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20120927084535www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20120927084535www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf, 2012-09-27, Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned MBO by the FAA, and DXE from IATAWEB,www.gcmap.com/airport/KMBO, Bruce Campbell Field (ICAO: KMBO, FAA: MBO, IATA: DXE), Great Circle Mapper, April 24, 2012, (which assigned MBO to Mamburao Airport in the Philippines).WEB,aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=MBO, Mamburao Airport (IATA: MBO, ICAO: RPUM), Aviation Safety Network, April 24, 2012,

Facilities and aircraft

Bruce Campbell Field covers an area of 260 acres (105 ha) at an elevation of 326 feet (99 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 17/35 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,444 by 75 feet (1,355 x 23 m).For the 12-month period ending April 14, 2011, the airport had 48,660 aircraft operations, an average of 133 per day: 99.8% general aviation and 0.2% military. At that time there were 63 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, and 13% multi-engine.

History

The airport was opened in March 1941 as Augustine Auxiliary Field with an all-direction 4,000’ turf takeoff/landing field. single 3,600’ concrete runway. It began training United States Army Air Corps flying cadets under contract to Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics, Inc. The airport was assigned to Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command) as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield, reporting to Jackson Army Air Base. The airfield had three local auxiliary airfields for emergency and overflow landings. Flying training was performed with Fairchild PT-19s as the primary trainer and also had several PT-17 Stearmans assigned.The airfield was deactivated on June 30, 1945, with the drawdown of AAFTC’s pilot training program. It was declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on September 30, 1945, and was eventually discharged to the War Assets Administration (WAA) and became a civil airport.{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC. {{OCLC|57007862|1050653629}}Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas {{OCLC|71006954|29991467}}

See also

• Mississippi World War II Army Airfields
• List of airports in Mississippi
• 29th Flying Training Wing (World War II)

References

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External links

• Madison Air Center, the fixed-base operator (FBO)
• Aerial image as of February 1996 from USGS The National Map
• {{FAA-procedures|MBO}}
• {{US-airport-minor|MBO||KMBO}}

{{USAAF Training Bases World War II}}