Selma Municipal Airport

Selma Municipal Airport Selfield Field
2006 USGS airphoto
IATA: ~~SES~~ – ICAO: none
Summary
Serves	Selma, Alabama
Coordinates	32°26′20″N 086°57′13″W / 32.43889°N 86.95361°W / 32.43889; -86.95361
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SES Location of Selma Municipal Airport

Selma Municipal Airport (IATA: ~~SES~~), also known as Selma Selfield Airport, was an airport located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east-northeast of Selma, Alabama.

History

The field was always closely tied to operations at Craig and served as an auxiliary field for a number of years during World War II with the initiation of Undergraduate Pilot Training for the Air Force though the 1960s. It became a joint use facility in the early 1950s with Delta Airlines operating DC-3 service and later Southern Airways. Selma Municipal Airport was closed in 1978 when the City of Selma relocated the municipal airport to the much larger Craig Air Force Base, which was closed by the Air Force after the Vietnam War.

Today the former airport is used for storage of a large number of house trailers by FEMA; which remain in the area after being repossessed from Hurricane Katrina victims.

References

External links

Abandoned Airports: Selma Municipal Airport, Selma, AL

Airports in Alabama

Primary	Birmingham–Shuttlesworth Dothan Regional Huntsville Intl Mobile Regional Montgomery Regional–Dannelly

Non-primary	Northwest Alabama

Reliever	Bessemer St. Clair County

General	Abbeville Albertville–Brumlik Anniston Arthur Ashland–Lineville Atmore Auburn University–Pitts Bay Minette Bibb County Blackwell Brewton Butler–Choctaw County Callahan Camden Centre Municipal Centre–Piedmont–Cherokee County Chilton County–Gragg/Wade Clayton Courtland Cullman–Folsom Dauphin Island Demopolis–Sawyer Downer Gulf Shores-Jack Edwards Enterprise Florala Foley Folsom Franklin Geneva Greensboro Grove Hill Guntersville–Starnes Hartselle–Morgan County Headland Isbell Jackson Lanett Mac Crenshaw Madison County–Sharp Marion County–Fite Middleton Mobile–Brookley Mobile–Downtown Monroe County Moton Field North Pickens Northeast Alabama Posey Prattville–Grouby Pryor Field Roanoke Robbins Russell Russellville–Pugh St. Elmo Scottsboro–Word Shelby County South Alabama–Benton Sylacauga Talladega Tuscaloosa Vaiden Walker–Bevill Weedon Wetumpka

Public use	Addison Ardmore Double Springs–Winston County Eutaw Fish River Fort Deposit–Lowndes County Hazel Green Hubbard Landing Jones Lamar County Logan–Samson McMinn Moontown Moundville Pine Hill Ray Reeves Reynolds–North Mobile County Sikes Skyharbor Stevenson Wilcox

Private use	Sharpe

Military	NOLF Barin Birmingham ANGB Fort Rucker Cairns AAF Hanchey AHP Lowe AHP Maxwell–Gunter AFB Gunter Annex CGATC Mobile Montgomery ANGB Redstone Arsenal Redstone AAF St. Elmo AAF NOLF Summerdale

Defunct	Anderson AF Anniston AFB Bates AAF Birmingham AAB/AAF Brookley AFB (Brookely AAF) Brundidge Courtland AAF Craig AFB Anniston AFB Craig AAF Selfield AAF Danelly (Gunter AAF #6) Decatur Field Demopolis AAF Dothan Municipal (Napier AAF #2) Fort McClellan AAF Henderson Moton Field (old) Napier AAF Selma–Selfield Tallassee–Reeves (Griel AAF #1) Taylor (Gunter AAF #5) Troy AAF Tuskegee AAF Van De Graaff

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