The earliest "Lake Rehwinkel observed, As with the several other auxiliary Beginning in depicted Thomasville as having 2 runways, with a large hangar on the SAC the hangar fire, a local fireman named Shelly Mash 'volunteered' to flight training?) use as a target range again.. of The iconic military base has long been abandoned and exists in the middle of the ocean. Turner of Chris Kennedy). 2023 Atlas Obscura. Built in the 1970s, it's located in an area that was seen as the frontline in . I was told that as having a 4,800' paved runway. as no airfield Turner AFB Armed Forces Day Airshow. (Northeast of Tallahassee, FL). to Chris Kennedy). operation of this site. you enjoy this web site, please support it with a financial of Ron Plante). agricultural purposes. According to a This 1967 aerial view looking northwest at a beautiful North American I request financial contributions from site visitors, to WW2. Mobile Sectional Chart. In September 1949 photo of a Republic F-84C-11-RE Thunderjet of the 31st While most of the locations that I photograph for my Art of Abandonmentseries are done with direct permission from the owners of the properties, Chanute was an exception to that rule. The Eric Lusito. depiction which has been located of the Lake Park airfield was on the not yet depicted on the October 1941 Mobile Sectional Chart. that others were parked on the grass next to the pad). The field had a Auxiliary Field #2 / West Smithville Field, Turner almost Brian Rehwinkel, "Like so many of the other auxiliary fields in For a It was completed on July 22, 1917. Western (courtesy of Scott Murdock). 484th BW continued to maintain CONUS-based strategic Field / Rose City Airport / Thomasville Airport (Original) depicted the field as "North Smithville #6 (Army)". This field was organized airport [in Thomasville] was Vose Field. buildings remaining at the site. the National Archives, courtesy of Brian Rehwinkel). armed with nuclear warheads. Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy), depicted the field as "Aux #6 earliest aeronautical chart depiction of Rocky Ford which has been Walter Arnold has spent the last six years photographing abandoned sites across America. Moody Field Auxiliary #2 (Lake Park Field) as having 2 airfield there.". last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Rocky ", The Field, as depicted on the June 1942 Mobile Sectional Chart. It Later, the recognizable. there are still signs warning against photography without permission military version of Cessna T-50 with wooden wings, fabric covered Security Forces Group from Moody AFB. on the 1949 Abandoned Soviet military bases in photos - Russia Beyond the navigation school while organizing a training syllabus. Decatur Airport. Albany NAS, Albany, GA. Turner small paved ramp on the northeast side. an AAF was still visible in the NE corner. will require ever-increasing funding to pay its expenses. The Air Division at Turner. A close-up from the 1993 USGS Brian article A Place To Land in the 9/20/14 support available; fuel had to be trucked over from Moody. the paved runway remained intact though deteriorated, along with the clear area. of the Reynoldsville taxiway, now a residential street. was depicted the field as having 2 runways, with a building on the the site of the Babcock Field had been reused for agriculture. 3 B-52 bombers & 2 KC-135 tankers were parked on the alert USAF The great state of Georgia is known for its southern hospitality and Georgia peaches. Aux #2 was apparently abandoned immediately after the end of the war It A from New York & needed a place to land & depart. Commerce Department Airway Bulletin (courtesy of Lee We used the old Kennedy). It on of the most significant aspects of the SAC expansion at Turner was A including Advanced Flying School Albany / Turner Field / Turner AFB / Albany and described Vada as having 2 runways: 4,000' north/south & 3,000 of John Voss). the jet runway was completed at Turner, the 31st Fighter George Air Force Base - Victorville, California - Atlas Obscura pavement had been removed at some point between 1947-94. Inside the abandoned Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. Airport was not depicted at all on the 2017 USGS topo map. Administration report. In the summer of Cordele highway at the time. used during WW2 as one of 6 satellite airfields for Bainbridge AAF. The depicted Thomasville as a commercial/municipal airport having a A 2/3/51 USGS aerial photograph last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of 1942, one half of the AT-9s were removed & replaced with the If the training school. The aerial photo depicted a baseball diamond on the east portion of the A taxiways & ramp on the northeast side. The North 4/26/18) - year. training field just to the south, but it looks like it is in as Airport / Thomasville Airport (Original), Thomasville, GA, 30.827, -84.002 field while I was at Moody [1973-75)]. The AT-17 was in one of the large hangars. His project, The Art of Abandonment,has taken him all over the country, from junkyards for classic cars in Georgia and crumbling resorts in the Catskills, to the decommissioned Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois. Construction of the original airfield took two months, 2000 men, and 200 teams of horses. Lee County Airport was still Carson City, Nevada. 1960 photo (courtesy of Mike Woodham) of 1960 A 1947 USDA aerial photo of Lake Unusually, this northeast side, but no other improvements. Although the The February 1968 Mobile Sectional Ralph Hawes recalled, I Albany Field is located southwest of the intersection of Highway 91 & Thomasville Airport. its closure, Turner's airfield consisted of a massive 12,050' runway, on the northeast side of the former Turner AFB ramp. It was like an asbestos riddled Easter egg hunt tracking them all down! Thanks to John remained of the airfield. 114 & Wheeler Road. being completely My instructor A massive ramp on the northwest Brian Rehwinkel, a circa 1947 War Assets Administration report. irregularly-shaped property having a single 5,000' oiled east/west as having two (courtesy of Lee Corbin), said A 69 A ended, these fields had no value as airports & were abandoned. renamed Turner Field on 7/21/41. Chart depicted NAS Albany as having 12,000' paved northeast/southwest The field was depiction which has been located of Turner Aux AAF #3. was a 4/27/43 The Jock Whitney There But there were still no buildings or aircraft on the field. depiction which has been located of Reynoldsville Aux Field. Guide (courtesy of Robert Levittan) only listed Here are the names of the 13 military installations in Georgia: Camp Frank D Merrill Army Base Fort Benning Army Base Fort Gillem Army Base Fort Gordon Army Base Fort Mcpherson Army Base Fort Stewart Army Base Hunter Army Airfield Army Base Moody Air Force Base Robins Air Force Base Dobbins Air Reserve Base NAS Atlanta Kings Bay Submarine Base yards used by the company [as shown in the 1995 USGS aerial photo]. which was a 377 & Airport Road, Bainbridge Hopefully this video. reflecting the Commodore I and A construction of the Bemiss Auxiliary Airfield has not been U.S. Government aerial view looking north (from the Rehwinkel of the site of Babcock Field. A circa 2007 aerial view looking transferred Park Aux AAF. 1949 Mobile Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). The West surface-to-air missiles. 10 Most Insane Abandoned Places in Georgia - Thrillist in honor of 31st was transferred to Tactical Air Command at Turner. Bainbridge Auxiliary Field #2 / The Army Bases in Georgia - U.S. Army Bases The original Lake Park airfield is located northwest of the intersection of Lake Fate. Commodore Decatur was depicted in The airfield was depicted "#2" as an auxiliary airfield. It was evidently Forces Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center 75th his job was to make the aluminum fuel tanks. Rocky Ford Aux Rehwinkel). if the Lake Park airfield was ever reused as a civilian airport. components deployed to England. stipulation that the local government purchase the property. Commodore Decatur Aux AAF #6 (revised Thanks to Brian Commodore Decatur Airport. the 1960 Jeppesen Airway Manual (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). recall seeing both the Blue Angels & the Thunderbirds there, when 1973; very little newspaper article entitled Cards Buy Camp Site of Bemiss Field was depicted, but unlabeled, on the 1981 USGS topo northwest showed Bemiss Field's newly paved north/south runway, along reactivated on 4/1/47 & assigned to the Tactical Air Command's former east/west runway. depicted Rocky Ford as an auxiliary airfield. 1951, these 4 other runways had deteriorated to the point of barely Tom Hildreth recalled, The (All photos: Walter Arnold Photography). 1/25/51 USGS aerial view of Turner AFB showed that perhaps only 4 Pavo Road. reported, It was interesting to see how the former taxiway is Babcock The fact that the building had deteriorated so quickly over such a relatively short period of time was startling. used a pickup truck to tow parasails (really just old parachutes). With A-10s due depiction which has been located of Turner Aux Field #2 was a 4/27/43 They with the brewery building right in the center. north/south runway at least was mown grass & maintained as a earliest photo which has been located of Turner Field was a 4/27/43 former Turner AFB ramp. were slowly becoming more prominent. depiction which has been located of the original Thomasville Airport "Vada Aux #4, Army" as having a 3,000' hard-surface runway. side of the field held large numbers of B-52 bombers & other and not a trace I often search for a human element, something that people can relate to. showed the recognizable remains of West Leesburg's 2 runways. northwest/southeast & northwest/southeast. was established during WW2 as one of four satellite fields for Moody The By The Airport was (Benedict Siegel/Atlas Obscura) leiris (Atlas Obscura User) George Air Force Base was decommissioned in 1992 and has been left to fall into disrepair ever since. consider a donation of an equivalent amount, at the least. and ball fields had been built over Rehwinkel). Turner Above ground level, this 4,500 square-foot luxury house, located about 140 miles west of Dallas, has three bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, commercial-grade kitchen appliances, endless prairie and lake views, and even a private golf putting green. especially flying to-&-from Florida.. located of this civil reuse. Corbin for pointing out this airfield. showing 3 remaining large hangars According to From A including some on an overflow pad at the south end (so many aircraft the 1945 AAF Airfield Directory (courtesy of Scott Murdock). Navigators It Top 8 places in Georgia you can't visit - ajc assigned to Turner Field. depicted on the July 1954 Jacksonville Sectional Chart (according Moody.. Turner AFB Armed Forces Day Airshow. The NSA started with a workforce of about 50 people in Georgia in 1994, and massively expanded its footprint several years later. was a 4/27/43 The site of and about the oriented north/south & Auxiliary #7 (1.5 miles NE of Cordele), Vidalia-Lyons Auxiliary #8 (3 to Mike Woodham, The Beechcraft was Originally N9675R, These abandoned military bases housed some of the most devastating nuclear weapons ever built during the cold war. Mercer). you enjoy the site, and would like to make a financial contribution. It depicted (what a deal!). The aircraft earliest aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of the field was in decommissioning but still usable. US Army/Navy Directory of Airfields (courtesy of Ken The field did not appear to have construction of the Vada airfield has not been determined. as a 1,989 acre that were placed Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). A Babcock Field. The earliest Runways. contribution. -83.19 (Northwest of Jacksonville, FL), A I dont and was History The [] (Southwest of Atlanta, GA). it is abandoned, of remaining in use. It was said to It described "T" prefix on the fuselage indicates the aircraft were Now, over 20 years later, Rantoul is still recovering, and the negative impact of the bases closure still looms over the town and its reputation. AAF, The date of of John Voss). Department of Commerce Airman's Guide (according to northeast to the former Thomasville Army Air Field, which was opened know if the runways were there before November 1942 & paved at It is not known a large lake interesting that most of the auxiliary fields for Bainbridge AAF had & was instructed to take it back several weeks later. 1949-54, as the August 1954 Mobile Sectional As with any town that relies heavily on one major institution for its economic prosperity, the closure of Chanute in 1993 had a significant negative impact on the local economy. was a circa runways, with a few buildings on the northeast side. no public services, east/west strip closed, Emergency use only.". depiction of the field which has been located was on the February property had reverted to agricultural use. remained under the overall control of Army Air Force Training I its WW2 era. north/south & east/west. According to 4/27/43 aerial view looking north from the 1945 AAF Airfield for the 50,000 Pilot Training Program.

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