Moultrie Municipal Airport


Moultrie Municipal Airport is seven miles south of Moultrie in Colquitt County, Georgia, United States. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility. It has no airline service.

History

Moultrie Airport was built before World War II; during the war it was used as an auxiliary training field for Spence Army Airfield a few miles to the northeast. Known as Spence AAF Auxiliary No. 3 It hosted the 455th School Squadron beginning on August 1, 1941 while still a civil airport.
The airfield was released from military use on December 15, 1945 and returned to civil use. Southern Airways DC-3s began flights to Moultrie in 1949, but probably at Spence initially; by 1955 they were at Sunset Field, as it was then known. Southern's DC-3s were replaced by Martin 404s, then by Metros, then by Republic CV580s that pulled out in 1981. Moultrie dropped out of the OAG in 1988 when Eastern ended code-share prop flights from Atlanta.

Facilities

The airport covers 369 acres at an elevation of 294 feet. It has two asphalt runways: 4/22 is 5,129 by 100 feet and 16/34 is 3,878 by 75 feet.
In the year ending August 11, 2010 the airport had 15,500 general aviation operations, average 42 per day. 29 aircraft were then based at the airport: 93% single-engine and 7% multi-engine.