Chinquapin Airport [SEP] end time
former military training school, it being reopened as Greenwood County Airport.
Chinquapin Airport was closed, the property sold in 1948 and the land was redeveloped into a housing development. The hangars at the airport were moved to the new airport. The runways were subsequently converted into streets. One runway is now Marietta Drive, and the other is Westgate Drive, with houses built along each side of the streets.
See also.
- South Carolina World War II Army Airfields
References.
- Abandoned airports: Chinquapin
Chinquapin Airport
Chinquapin Airport is a former airport located 2.5 miles west of Greenwood, South Carolina. It was closed after World War II, with all flight operations being moved to the Greenwood County Airport north of the city.
History.
Chinquapin Airport, also known as Greenwood Municipal Airport and Johnson Field, was built in the mid-1930s by the Works Progress Administration. It replaced a smaller Greenwood Municipal Airport which was built in the late 1920s that was being encroached by the city of Greenwood. It had two grass or