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19-636: DHN may refer to: DHN, the IATA and FAA LID code for Dothan Regional Airport , Alabama, United States DHN, the Indian Railways station code for Dhanbad Junction railway station , Jharkhand, India DHN, the National Rail station code for Deighton railway station , West Yorkshire, England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

38-577: A primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 47,859 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 42,071 in 2009 and 41,453 in 2010. The only commercial airline service is provided by twice-daily Delta Connection flights to Atlanta using CRJ-700 and CRJ-900 aircraft. Over 50% of Dothan's flights are military training operations from nearby Fort Novosel , NAS Whiting Field , and NAS Pensacola , while just under 40% are general aviation . In 1941

57-581: A flight surgeon at the time of his death. The official report states that he was piloting the plane himself and there was a structural failure of a wing. Napier Field was assigned to the Southeast Training Center of the Army Air Forces Training Command. It was commanded by the 73d Army Air Force Base Unit. In addition to the main facility, the following known sub-bases and auxiliaries were built to support

76-520: A former US Air Force C-131 H, AF Ser. No. 54-2817, which was in the process of being transferred from the Air Force to the US Navy's Fleet Air Logistics Squadron 48 (VR-48) at Andrews AFB / NAF Washington , Maryland, crashed on takeoff during a post-contract maintenance acceptance flight, killing the crew of 3 on board. Poor civilian contract maintenance on the elevator control cables was determined as

95-582: A telegram to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to the "splendid offer which General Arnold made to us of one-third of the rapidly expanding capacity for pilot training in the United States to be filled with pupils from here", stating that "the first five hundred and fifty of our young men are now ready to leave". Unlike the British Flying Training Schools, training

114-456: A total of 7,885 RAF personnel entered the scheme. Of these, 3,392 were eliminated or 'washed out' and 81 were killed in training. Of the cadets who successfully completed training, 577 were retained for approximately one year as instructors, the remainder returning to the UK. Most successful students became sergeant pilots , but 1,070 were commissioned. Pilot officer Cyril Joe Barton , a graduate of

133-668: Is now. It had three runways, all 4006 feet or less. Eastern Airlines stopped there from 1945 to 1964; Southern Airways arrived in 1956 and continued at the new airport. Dothan Regional Airport covers 1,150 acres (465 ha ) at an elevation of 401 feet (122 m). It has two asphalt runways : 14/32 is 8,499 by 150 feet (2,590 x 46 m) and 18/36 is 5,498 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m). In 2011 the airport had 85,201 aircraft operations, an average of 233 per day: 55% military, 40% general aviation , 4% airline, and 1% air taxi . 91 aircraft were then based at this airport: 52% single-engine, 40% multi-engine, 8% jet, and 1% helicopter . In November 1985,

152-665: The United States Army Air Corps built Napier Field , named in honor of Major Edward L. Napier of Union Springs, Alabama . One of the Army's first flight surgeons , he was killed in the crash of a Fokker D.VII , AS-5382 , at McCook Field , Dayton, Ohio , on 15 September 1923. He had been a Medical Corps Officer in World War I and had transferred to the Army Air Corps . He was receiving training as

171-559: The Air Force returned to the airport in the form of a non-flying unit, the 280th Combat Communications Squadron (280 CCS), an Air Force Special Operations Command ( AFSOC )-gained unit of the Alabama Air National Guard , which established Dothan Regional Airport Air National Guard Station on the airport. Until 1965 the municipal airport was three miles west of town, where the Westgate Rec Center

190-740: The Royal Air Force. The United Kingdom was considered largely unsuitable due to a combination of enemy action, high operational traffic at airfields and unpredictable weather. Several overseas training schemes were therefore established, including the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan , the British Flying Training Schools and the Arnold Scheme. The scheme was one product of the climate of greater co-operation between

209-578: The United Kingdom and the then neutral United States following the introduction of Lend-Lease in March 1941. In April 1941 General 'Hap' Arnold flew to London and met with RAF officers at the Air Ministry , offering to train four thousand British pilots alongside American aviation cadets. The British Air Council accepted the generous offer and planning began immediately. On 10 May 1941, in

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228-708: The cause of the mishap. Arnold Scheme The Arnold Scheme was established to train British RAF pilots in the United States of America during World War II . Its name derived from US General Henry H. Arnold , Chief of the United States Army Air Forces , the instigator of the scheme, which ran from June 1941 to March 1943. In the early years of the Second World War there was an acute need to train pilots for

247-612: The first group of British cadets arrived for training under the Arnold Scheme . The first American cadets graduated on July 3, 1942 (42-F). In late May 1945, officers from the Mexican Army began P-40 training at Napier Field. The field was inactivated by the U.S. Army Air Forces on October 31, 1945, and the airfield and its improvements were made available to the City of Dothan and Houston County under an Agreement in 1946 which

266-540: The instruction of USAAC and RAF flight instructors, lasted nine to ten weeks at either Cochran Field at Macon, Georgia or Gunter Field , Montgomery, Alabama . Advanced flying training schools conducted single-engine courses, held at Craig Field or Napier Field in Alabama, and multi-engine courses, originally at Maxwell Field and Napier Field, Alabama and Turner Field , Georgia, but later at Turner Field and Moody Field , Georgia. Between June 1941 and March 1943

285-524: The title DHN . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DHN&oldid=1059059188 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dothan Regional Airport The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it

304-436: The training operations: The 29th Flying Training Wing was activated at Napier on December 26, 1942. The 2116th (Pilot School, Advanced, Single-Engine) was main operational group at Napier Field. The group flew mostly AT-6 Texans as well as providing advanced & specialized training in single engine aircraft, including P-40 fighters. The first aircraft began operating on the field on October 1, 1941. On December 20, 1941,

323-1009: Was assigned one rated RAF administrative officer. Each school had a subordinate non-rated RAF administrative officer to handle discipline and pay. Prior to the USA's entry into the War following the Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, RAF cadets were required to wear civilian clothes. Primary flying courses were run by experienced civilian American instructors and took place over 9 to 10 weeks at civilian contract schools at Woodward Field in South Carolina , Albany and Americus in Georgia , Carlstrom Field, Arcadia and Lakeland in Florida , and Tuscaloosa in Alabama . Basic flying training, under

342-474: Was jointly accepted. The airport lands lay dormant for about 20 years and Houston County later turned its share of Napier Field to the city. In the early 1960s, a complete overhaul of the facility commenced with the old USAAF airfield layout being largely dug up and converted into reinforced hard surface for new jet runways, buildings and other facilities for a civil airport. Dothan Regional Airport opened to commercial activity on February 15, 1965. In 2004

361-577: Was to be carried out by the United States Army Air Corps and based at both military bases and contract civilian flying schools in the Southeast Air Corps Training Center area, one of three large geographical training centres established in the USA. Training was divided into separate primary, basic and advanced courses, held at various flying schools and bases, and each training centre headquarters

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