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US Navy 050902-N-0000X-017 A U.S. Navy Seabee uses a traxcavator to remove debris from Hurricane Katrina on board Naval Construction Battalion Center (NCBC) Gulfport, Miss. On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina arrived at Gulfport for a two-day stay.
Gulfport Field was declared excess by the Air Force and conveyed by the War Assets Administration to the City of Gulfport in 1949 for use as a civil airport. The City negotiated airline service contracts with Southern Airways and later National Airlines to provide passenger and cargo service beginning in the early 1950s.
Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport covers an area of 1,400 acres (567 ha) at an elevation of 28 feet (9 m) above mean sea level.It has two runways: 14/32 is 9,002 by 150 feet (2,744 x 46 m) with an asphalt and concrete surface; 18/36 is 4,935 by 150 feet (1,504 x 46 m) with an asphalt surface.
At the end of that PACOM tour, the 133 returned to Gulfport, MS for a 15-month homeport and training cycle. [66] In March 2010, the battalion deployed over 600 Seabees to Afghanistan in support of the 30,000 troop surge. NMCB 133 created a camp on Kandahar Airfield (KAF), Afghanistan for their main-body site. The location was an undeveloped ...
The following year, it received $250,000 from the state legislature to create a museum and began collaborating with the University of Southern Mississippi to conduct oral history interviews with individuals who knew Robinson or the environment he grew up in. [1] [2] The association commissioned a bust of Robinson, which went on display at the ...
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Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar, also known as FBO Hangar and Gulfport Municipal Airport Terminal, was constructed in 1944-45 for use in training combat crews to operate the B-29 Superfortress. [2] Located in Gulfport, Mississippi, the hangar was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, and was designated a Mississippi Landmark ...
Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport: P-N 359,055 Hattiesburg / Laurel: PIB PIB KPIB Hattiesburg–Laurel Regional Airport: P-N 9,813 Jackson: JAN JAN KJAN Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport: P-S 489,454 Meridian: MEI MEI KMEI Key Field: P-N 19,332 Tupelo: TUP TUP KTUP Tupelo Regional Airport (C.D. Lemons Field) P-N 13,557