Kingman Airport (Arizona)
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Kingman Airport (IATA: IGM[2], ICAO: KIGM, FAA LID: IGM) is a city-owned, public-use airport located 9 miles (7.8 nmi; 14 km) northeast of the central business district of Kingman, a city in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.[1]
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Kingman Airport (former Kingman Army Airfield) | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | City of Kingman | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Kingman, Arizona | ||||||||||||||
Location | Mohave County, Arizona | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 3,449 ft / 1,051 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°15′34″N 113°56′17″W | ||||||||||||||
Website | KingmanAirportAuthority.com | ||||||||||||||
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Kingman Municipal Airport, also known as Kingman Army Airfield, was founded at the start of World War II and was one of the nation's largest aerial training bases. After the war, Kingman Airfield served as one of the nation's top reclamation sites for outdated military aircraft. It became open to civilian use in 1949. At that time, the Kingman Army Airfield Historical Society[3] was established; it maintained records and artifacts from the site. In 2010, an inspection of the site revealed soil contamination, and from 2013 until July 2014, the land was rehabilitated for safe use, by removing the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) from the soil.[4]