Vaughn Airport is an abandoned airport located 9 miles south-southeast of
Columbus, Mississippi.
History
The airport was built about 1942 as an auxiliary airfield to the Army pilot school at
Columbus Army Airfield
Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "'' Colombo''". It most commonly refers to:
* Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), the Italian explorer
* Columbus, Ohio, capital of the U.S. state of Ohio
Columbus may also refer to:
Places ...
. It was designated Vaughn Auxiliary Army Airfield #6 It had a single northwest/southeast paved runway, and did not have any hangars or structures. It was apparently unmanned unless necessary for aircraft recovery.
It was sold after the war in 1945 and during the postwar years was used as a civil airport. The Air Force apparently kept a right of return to the airport, it being used during the 1950s as a training and emergency landing field for
Craig AFB
Craig Air Force Base near Selma, Alabama, was a U.S. Air Force undergraduate pilot training (UPT) installation that closed in 1977. Today the facility is a civilian airport known as Craig Field Airport and Industrial Complex (ICAO: KSEM; FAA: S ...
, Alabama. The civil airport closed about 1960, and the facility was abandoned.
It was later used during the 1960s and 1970s as a drag strip but has since been abandoned again. The remains of the runway can be seen in aerial imagery. No evidence of any buildings can be seen.
See also
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Mississippi World War II Army Airfields
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Mississippi for antisubmarine defense in the Gulf of Mexico and for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.
Most of these airfield ...
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Abandoned Airports: Vaughn Mississippi
Defunct airports in Mississippi