Greenville Downtown Airport

Greenville Downtown Airport
Greenville Downtown Airport
IATA: GMU – ICAO: KGMU – FAA: GMU
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Greenville Airport Commission
Serves	Greenville, South Carolina
Elevation AMSL	1,048 ft / 319 m
Coordinates	34°50′53″N 082°21′00″W / 34.84806°N 82.35°W
Runways
Helipads
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations	76,260
Based aircraft	250
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

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Greenville Downtown Airport (IATA: GMU, ICAO: KGMU, FAA LID: GMU) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district of Greenville, a city in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. It is owned by the Greenville Airport Commission.^[1]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Greenville Downtown Airport covers an area of 385 acres (156 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 measuring 5,393 x 100 ft (1,644 x 30 m) and 10/28 measuring 3,998 x 80 ft (1,219 x 24 m). It also had two helipads, each with a 50 x 50 ft (15 x 15 m) concrete surface.^[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 28, 2007, the airport had 76,260 aircraft operations, an average of 208 per day: 63% general aviation, 33% air taxi and 4% military. At that time there were 250 aircraft based at this airport: 67% single-engine, 24% multi-engine, 6% jet and 2% helicopter.^[1] In July 2008 DayJet announced nonstop per seat VLJ service on twin pilot, twin jet planes to 14 hubs in 3 states bolstering the Air Taxi component of the airport's flights.

[edit] History

Greenville Municipal Airport was opened as a commercial airport in September, 1937. During World War II, the United States Army Air Force indicated a need for the airfield as a training airfield. The airport was used jointly by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command) as a contract glider training school, operated by Southern Airways, Inc from 1941 until mid-1943.

The airport was then reassigned to Air Technical Service Command, and used as a supply and maintence depot until being returned to full civil control in October 1945.