Rickenbacker International Airport
Rickenbacker International Airport
Rickenbacker International Airport
(IATA: LCK, ICAO: KLCK, FAA LID: LCK) is a civil-military public airport 10
miles (16 km) south of downtown Columbus, near Lockbourne in southern Franklin
County, Ohio, United States. The south end of the airport extends into Pickaway
County. The base was named for flying ace and Columbus native Eddie
Rickenbacker. It is managed by the Columbus Regional Airport Authority, which
also operates John Glenn Columbus International Airport and Bolton Field. Rickenbacker International is primarily a
cargo airport for the city of Columbus, although since 2012 it has served an
increasing number of passenger flights as well as charter carriers.
The United States Air Force maintains
a presence in the form of the Ohio Air National Guard's 121st Air Refueling
Wing, Rickenbacker International is also home of the Ohio Army National Guard's
Army Aviation Support Facility No. 2 and the headquarters for the Ohio Military
Reserve, one of the state defense forces of Ohio.
History
The facility opened in June 1942 as
Lockbourne Army Airfield (named after the nearby village of Lockbourne). It was
then named the Northeastern Training Center of the Army Air Corps, and provided
basic pilot training and military support. In addition, the training center
provided B-17 flight training to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), and
training for glider pilots in the CG-4A Waco glider. After the war,
flight-training activities were halted and the airfield was used as a
development and testing facility for all-weather military flight operations.
The primary unit at the base was the all-Black 447th Composite Group, also
known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
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