Kinston Regional Jetport

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Kinston Regional Jetport
Stallings Field


Kinston Regional Jetport, 27 Feb 1994
IATA: ISO – ICAO: KISO – FAA: ISO
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator North Carolina Global TransPark Authority
Serves Kinston, Goldsboro, Ayden, Grifton, and Eastern NC communities
Location Kinston, North Carolina
Elevation AMSL 94 ft / 28.7 m
Coordinates 35°19′53″N 77°36′32″W / 35.33139°N 77.60889°W / 35.33139; -77.60889Coordinates: 35°19′53″N 77°36′32″W / 35.33139°N 77.60889°W / 35.33139; -77.60889
Website kinstonregionaljetport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
5/23 11,500 3,505 Asphalt

Kinston Regional Jetport (IATA: ISO, ICAO: KISO, FAA LID: ISO), also known as Stallings Field, is a public airport located three miles (5 km) northwest of the central business district (CBD) of Kinston, a city in Lenoir County, North Carolina, USA. The airport has a single runway that is one of the longest in the southeastern United States.[citation needed] It is mostly used for general aviation. The airport is used by charters for college teams traveling to and from East Carolina University in nearby Greenville for athletic events due to Greenville's short runways.

The Kinston Regional Jetport features free parking as well as free wireless Internet access in its terminal. The Jetport's terminal also houses several businesses, including Philbros Gift and Coffee Shop as well as Robert Franchise Transportation, a commercial transportation service. Rental car agencies are located in the terminal.

Spirit AeroSystems will be manufacturing parts of the new Airbus A350 at its new Kinston facility at GTP.

One of the central features of the Kinston Regional Jetport is the Global TransPark, an industrial park adjoining the airport. It was built to bring high-tech industry and economic development to eastern North Carolina.

Contents

[edit] Charter Airlines

[edit] Cargo

  • FedEx Express (Greensboro)
  • Ram Air Freight (Charlotte, Concord, Jacksonville (NC), Raleigh-Durham, Rocky Mount-Wilson)

[edit] History

Kinston Jetport originally was built in 1944 by the United States Navy. It opened in October as a United States Marine Corps flying training airfield known as Kinston Marine Corps Auxiliary Airfield, being an axillary to Cherry Point Marine Corps Airfield. Construction involved building runways and airplane hangars, with three concrete runways, several taxiways and a large parking apron and a control tower. Several hangars were also constructed. Buildings were ultimately utilitarian and quickly assembled. Most base buildings, not meant for long-term use, were constructed of temporary or semi-permanent materials. Although some hangars had steel frames and the occasional brick or tile brick building could be seen, most support buildings sat on concrete foundations but were of frame construction clad in little more than plywood and tarpaper.

Cadets received V-5 flight training along with basic flying indoctrination at the airfield until the facility was closed on 31 October 1945.

As a result of the Cold War and the expansion of the United States Air Force, Kinston Air Base* was reopened on 17 October 1950 by the USAF Air Training Command, as a contract flying training school. The 3308th Flying Training Squadron (Contract Flying) was the operational training unit at the base, with ground and flight training being supplied by the Serv-Air Aviation Corporation. Training at Kinston began on 17 October 1951. In May 1952, Air Training Command renamed Kinston Airfield as Stallings Air Base in memory of Kinston natives Lt Bruce Stallings, a P-51 Mustang pilot killed in March 1945, and his brother, Lt Harry Stallings, a B-29 Superfortress navigator killed in April 1945.

The base conducted flying training and contract flying training initially with Link T-8 and T-18 trainers, later being upgraded to Beechcraft T-34 Mentor and North American T-28 Trojans. In April 1957, ATC proposed that the contract training at Stallings be closed. The recommendation was approved in September and on 1 October flying training ended at Stallings. The base was formally inactivated on 27 November 1957.

.* Note: Air Training Command applied the "Air Base" designator to private contractor-operated flying training bases in the 1950s

[edit] Incidents and accidents

On November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight 932 crashed while carrying the Marshall University football team that had departed from the airport after a game against ECU.

[edit] References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

[edit] External links

United States Air Force portal


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