| 词条 | Buckingham Field |
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| name = Buckingham Field | image = Buckingham Field - Florida.jpg | image-width = 250 | caption = 2006 USGS airphoto | FAA = FL59 | type = Privately owned | owner = Lee County Mosquito Control District | operator = | location = Lee County, near Fort Myers, Florida | elevation-m = 7 | elevation-f = 23 | coordinates = {{Coord|26|38|36|N|081|42|37|W|region:US-FL_type:airport|display=inline,title}} | website = | pushpin_map = Florida | pushpin_label_position = bottom | pushpin_label = FL59 | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Buckingham Field | r1-number = 14/32 | r1-length-m = 1,233 | r1-length-f = 4,046 | r1-surface = Concrete | r2-number = 6/24 | r2-length-m = 831 | r2-length-f = 2,726 | r2-surface = Concrete | footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] }}{{for|the World War II use of Buckingham Field|Buckingham Army Airfield}}Buckingham Field[2] {{airport codes|||FL59}} is a private-use airport located seven nautical miles (13 km) east of the central business district of Fort Myers, in Lee County, Florida, United States. It is privately owned by the Lee County Mosquito Control District.[1] The Buckingham Air Park has deeded access to the airport.[3] FacilitiesBuckingham Field has two concrete paved runways: 14/32 measuring 4,046 x 400 ft (1,233 x 122 m) and 6/24 measuring 2,726 x 400 ft (831 x 122 m).[1] HistoryOriginally constructed for the United States Army Air Corps as Buckingham Field, the airfield had its origins as an aircraft gunner training base to train the aerial gunners who would defend bombers. The airfield was constructed starting in 1942 at a cost of $10 million on a total of {{convert|7000|acre|km2}} of swamp land, which had to be drained with an extensive system of newly constructed canals. The airfield originally had three 5,000-foot runways, with 2 oval tracks of the Ground Moving Target Range, located to the west of the airfield, as well as nearby skeet ranges & trap ranges. After the war, the barracks at Buckingham were briefly used as the Edison College, but this closed in 1948. Most of the buildings of the original base were subsequently removed over time. A street grid for a planned housing development named Lehigh Acres was eventually built over the area formerly occupied by Buckingham's runways in the 1950s. By the mid-1970s, the runways were gone except for the concrete ends. The 1978 Miami Sectional Chart depicted three paved portions of Buckingham's former ramp as the runways of the Lehigh Acres West private airfield. The longest runway was depicted as 3,000'. The street grid built over the location of the former runways remained undeveloped for some period of time, before eventually being partially filled in with houses, it remains, however, about 90% unoccupied. By 2000, the northern portion of the ramp was used as a runway, being operated as a private field, Buckingham Field Airport, by the Lee County Mosquito/Hyacinth Control District, which operates a fleet of 23 aircraft & helicopters (including C-47s & several rare C-117 Super Dakotas).[4] Portions of the ramp area are also used for automobile racing. References1. ^1 2 {{FAA-airport|ID=FL59|use=PR|own=PR|site=03199.*A}}, effective 2008-04-10 2. ^Buckingham Army Airfield / Lehigh West Airfield / Buckingham Field (FL59) at Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://buckinghamairpark.tripod.com/|title=Bickingham Airpark|accessdate=2019-03-19}} 4. ^{{cite journal|magazine=AOPA Pilot|title= Disease Busters|author=Amy Lombada|page=67|date=April 2015}} External links
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