Middleton Field

Middleton Field is a public-use airport located west of the central business district of Evergreen, a city in Conecuh County, Alabama, United States. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a general aviation facility.National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 1 (PDF, 1.33 MB) . Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008. Although the airport is owned by the City of Evergreen, it is primarily used for flight training by the U.S. Navy as Naval Outlying Field Evergreen under Whiting Field.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Middleton Field is assigned GZH by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.Great Circle Mapper: KGZH - Evergreen, Alabama (Middleton Field)

History Middleton Field was constructed in 1931 as an emergency landing field for Contract Air Mail route 23 (CAM-23). In 1943, the U.S. Navy began using the airfield as an Outlying Field for pilots training in Pensacola. The airway beacon at Middleton Field is listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.

Facilities and aircraft Middleton Field covers an area of which contains two asphalt paved runways (1/19 and 10/28) each measuring .

For the 12-month period ending June 25, 2007, the airport had 134,005 aircraft operations, an average of 367 per day: 96% military and 4% general aviation.

Accidents On July 13, 1982, Lt. Cmdr. Barbara Allen Rainey, the U.S. Navy's first female pilot, and her student were killed in a crash while practicing touch-and-go landings at Middleton Field.Arlington Cemetery Biography for Lt. Cmdr. Barbara Allen Rainey The resulting litigation, Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey, went to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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