Spence Airport
USGS aerial image, 1993
IATA: MUL – ICAO: KMUL – FAA LID: MUL
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Moultrie
Serves		Moultrie, Georgia
Elevation AMSL		292 ft / 89 m
Coordinates		31°08′16″N 083°42′15″W / 31.13778°N 83.70417°W / 31.13778; -83.70417
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
14/32	4,500	1,372	Concrete
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations			18,100
Based aircraft			3
Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Spence Airport (IATA: MUL, ICAO: KMUL, FAA LID: MUL) is a city-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) southeast of the central business district of Moultrie, a city in Colquitt County, Georgia, United States. The airport serves the general aviation community, with no scheduled commercial airline service.

History

The City of Moultrie gained its first official municipal airport, Clark Field, in the 1930s. In 1940, local leaders, aware of the Federal government's airport building program, formed a committee to represent the community. The committee then contacted the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) about the possibility of acquiring a modern CAA built airport at Moultrie. The CAA, receptive to the idea, informed the committee that once the local government provided the land the Federal government would fund the building of an airfield. Due to the impossibility of expanding Clark Field for a modern airport, Moultrie and Colquitt County then took an option on a tract of land northeast of the city. When the committee members learned the Army planned on establishing additional training bases in the Southeast, they traveled to Maxwell AAF, Alabama to secure an Air Corps airfield on the site. Air Corps engineers came to Moultrie in March 1941. After inspecting the first site, they selected a more desirable site five miles southeast of the city. In June, after the War Department approved the second site, Moultrie and Colquitt County purchased the 1600 acres involved.

Military use

The airport was used for many years by the military, finally being closed as Spence Air Base.

Civil use

However, the USAF was still a presence at the civilian airport after its formal inactivation. Moody AFB in Valdosta made an agreement with the Cityi of Moultrie to use the airfield for an Air Force auxiliary field. The Air Force extended the north¬west/southeast runway to 8,000 ft for use by Moody's T-33 Shooting Stars, followed by its T-37 Tweets and T-38 Talons. The military use of Spence Airport continues into the current-day. Between 2000 and 2005, Spence served as an auxiliary field for the pilot training program at Moody, being used for take off and landing operations by their Raytheon T-6 Texan II turbo-prop trainers. As of 2008, Spence Airport still averages over 20 military flight operations per day.

Part of the cantonment area eventually became the Moultrie Regional Industrial Park and a county correctional institution. In 1968, Maule Aircraft built a manufacturing plant at Spence where it remains to this day. In 1978, Spence first hosted the Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition. In 2004, the Sunbelt Expo has grown into the world's largest farm show with over 1,000 exhibitors. Since many of the visitors fly to the show, Spence's old tower is manned during the event to control air traffic. Sunbelt Expo maintains a year round administration center at Spence.

Today, three of Spence's wartime hangars are still in existence. Other buildings built by during the war also remain.

Facilities and aircraft

Spence Airport covers an area of 100 acres (40 ha) at an elevation of 292 feet (89 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 14/32 with a concrete surface measuring 4,500 by 75 feet (1,372 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending September 11, 2008, the airport had 18,100 aircraft operations, an average of 49 per day: 56% general aviation and 44% military. At that time there were 3 aircraft based at this airport: 33.3% single-engine and 66.7% multi-engine.

Runway Information

Runway 14/32

Radio Navigation Aids

Remarks

• FARM & CONST EQUIP CROSSING RY.
• ACFT MANUFACTURER LCTD ON ARPT; ACFT TESTING & DEMONSTRATION WITH LNDGS & DEP FROM APRON.
• PARKING APRON HAS LOOSE GRAVEL THROUGHOUT.
• EXTENSIVE MILITARY TRAFFIC, 200 KTS, SFC TO 3500 FT WITHIN 5 NM. TO AVOID POTENTIAL TRAFFIC CONFLICT WITH MOODY AFB T-6A ACFT AND RECEIVE ADVISORIES, ALL AIRCRAFT ARE REQUESTED TO ANNOUNCE THEIR ARR OR DEP INTENTIONS ON UNICOM (123.0).

 Based Aircraft

Operational Statistics

    Time Period: 2005-04-06 - 2006-04-05

Spence Airport  

Address: Colquitt County, GA

Tel: 229-9850-1974

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General Info
Country	United States
State	GEORGIA
FAA ID	MUL
Latitude	31-08-15.672N
Longitude	083-42-14.615W
Elevation	292 feet
Near City	MOULTRIE

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