At 08:29 AM 5/24/2003 -0400, Jose Prize wrote: >Darn, I'm losing it then because I drove all the perimeters of the runways >inside Scott shooting every aircraft I could see and I never saw a sign >for Mid-America Airport or any civilian aircraft there. I just assumed >the airport was nearby but not at the same location. I think Mid-America's story starts the same as the current commercial airport at Austin: USAF base closes, and the base passes to civilian hands who try to develop a commercial airport and economic zone. At Austin, they closed the old airport when they re-opened the former Bergstrom AFB. However, Lambert barely batted an eyelash when Mid-America opened. (It helps if the agency acquiring the old AFB also operates the current airport that will be supplanted!) If you shot military jets at Scott AFB, there wasn't a Mid-America airport yet, as far as I know. :-) >Thanks. > >Jose Prize Nick