Mid America Airport is a joint-use airport. There is a military side and there is a civilian side. There are several airports in the USA like this. HNL is a joint use airport with Hickam, Yuma MCAS and Yuma International Airport are the one and the same. If you were on Scott AFB, it's doubtful you would have seen a sign for Mid America. Looking at a mapquest map of the area, there are no direct roads between Scott and Mid America. >From what I've read, it's doubtful you would have seen any civilian aircraft at Mid America, at least in the airline size range. Mid America is a white elephant. David R. http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://www.secure-skies.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Laflamme" <dplaflamme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] New US Airports > 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