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Selma Municipal Airport

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Serves
  
Selma, Alabama

Code
  
SES

Address
  
Selma, AL 36703, USA

Selma Municipal Airport

Similar
  
Craig Air Field, Craig Field Airport & Industrial, Concordia College Alabama, Montgom Regional Airport, Craig Golf Course

Selma Municipal Airport (IATA: SES), also known as Selma Selfield Airport, was an airport located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east-northeast of Selma, Alabama.

History

The field was always closely tied to operations at Craig and served as an auxiliary field for a number of years during World War II with the initiation of Undergraduate Pilot Training for the Air Force though the 1960s. It became a joint use facility in the early 1950s with Delta Air Lines operating DC-3 service and later Southern Airways. Selma Municipal Airport was closed in 1978 when the City of Selma relocated the municipal airport to the much larger Craig Air Force Base, which was closed by the Air Force after the Vietnam War.

Today the former airport is used for storage of a large number of house trailers by FEMA; which remain in the area after being repossessed from Hurricane Katrina victims.

References

Selma Municipal Airport Wikipedia