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Airport type
  
Public

Serves
  
Camden, Arkansas

18/36
  
6,502

Code
  
CDH

Phone
  
+1 870-836-6436

Owner
  
City of Camden

Elevation AMSL
  
130 ft / 39 m

Address
  
Camden, AR 71711, USA

Elevation
  
39 m

Harrell Field

Location
  
Bradley Township, Ouachita County, Arkansas

Similar
  
Camden Regional Airport, Airport Inn, Southern Arkansas University, Camden Fairview High Sch, Lockheed Martin

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Harrell Field (IATA: CDH, ICAO: KCDH, FAA LID: CDH) is a public use airport located 5 nautical miles (9 km; 6 mi) northeast of the central business district of Camden, a city in Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States. It is also known as Camden Regional Airport or Camden Municipal Airport. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorizes it as a general aviation facility.

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History

Opened in August 1942 with 4,800 turf runway. Began training United States Army Air Corps flying cadets under contract to Wiggings-Marden Aero Corp. Assigned to United States Army Air Forces Gulf Coast Training Center (later Central Flying Training Command) as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield. It had two local auxiliary airfields for emergency and overflow landings. Flying training was performed with Fairchild PT-19s and Fairchild PT-23s as the primary trainers. Also had several PT-17 Stearmans and a few P-40 Warhawks assigned.

Inactivated on 15 April 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. Declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on 30 September 1945. Eventually discharged to the War Assets Administration (WAA) and became a civil airport. It appears to have closed after the war about 1951, later reopened.

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Harrell Field Wikipedia