Everett-Stewart Regional Airport is a public airport located approximately 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Union City, Tennessee

Union City, Tennessee

Union City is a city in Obion County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 10,876 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Obion County. The name comes from its location at the union of two railroads, one running roughly east-west and the other roughly north-south...

. It provides general aviation

General aviation

General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

 service.

History

Established in 1942 by the United States Army Air Force. Also known as Union City Airport. When activated on 5 July 1942, airfield had one 1,800' (01/19) runway of hard asphalt surface, and a 4000 x 3900 sod landing/takeoff area. Also may have had 3 auxiliary landing fields in area.

Airfield was operated under contract to USAAF by Embry Riddle-McKay Co. of TN & Riddle Aeronautical Institute providing basic flight (level 1) instruction to aviation cadets. Fairchild PT-19

Fairchild PT-19

|-See also:-Bibliography:* Mondey, David. American Aircraft of World War II . London: Bounty Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7537-1461-4....

s were the primary trainer used. Also had several PT-17 Stearmans and a few P-40 Warhawks assigned. Performed contract training until airfield was inactivated on 15 April 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program.

The airfield was turned over to civil control at the end of the war though the War Assets Administration (WAA).

See also

• Tennessee World War II Army Airfields
  Tennessee World War II Army Airfields
  During World War II, the United States Army Air Force established numerous airfields in Tennessee for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers....