{"id":25010,"date":"2016-01-11T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/?p=25010"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:31:38","slug":"kxno-north-af-aux-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/military-airports\/kxno-north-af-aux-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"KXNO – North Af Aux Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The land for\u00a0North Army Airfield<\/strong>\u00a0was bought between 1942 and 1945. The airfield was built by the\u00a0United States Army Air Forces<\/a>\u00a0The original dirt runway was constructed in April 1943 and used by\u00a0Hughes Aircraft Company<\/a>\u00a0for testing, as well as being a satellite airfield of\u00a0Columbia Army Air Base<\/a>, supporting\u00a0B-25 Mitchell<\/a>\u00a0medium bomber training for\u00a0Third Air Force<\/a>‘s\u00a0III Air Support Command<\/a>. Training was accomplished by 74th Station Complement Squadron which also maintained the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\u00a0World War II<\/a>, a 10,000\u00a0ft runway and a 3,000\u00a0ft assault runway were built. North Airfield (later North Auxiliary Airfield, Northfield Air Base), has been under the jurisdiction of\u00a0Fort Jackson<\/a>, the former\u00a0363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Shaw AFB<\/a>, and the\u00a0United States Department of Energy<\/a>\u00a0(DOE). On October 1, 1979, the\u00a0437th Airlift Wing<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Charleston AFB<\/a>\u00a0assumed real property jurisdiction, control, and accountability over North Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the transition of the\u00a0437th Airlift Wing<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0512th Airlift Wing<\/a>\u00a0(Associate) to the\u00a0C-17 Globemaster III<\/a>, an air traffic control tower and permanent aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) station was constructed at North Auxiliary Airfield, establishing it as a controlled versus uncontrolled airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/military-history.fandom.com\/wiki\/North_Auxiliary_Airfield<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.jbcharleston.jb.mil\/About-Us\/Fact-Sheets\/Article\/233010\/north-auxiliary-airfield<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Auxiliary_Airfield#History<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The land for\u00a0North Army Airfield\u00a0was bought between 1942 and 1945. The airfield was built by the\u00a0United States Army Air Forces\u00a0The original dirt runway was constructed in April 1943 and used by\u00a0Hughes Aircraft Company\u00a0for testing, as well as being a satellite airfield of\u00a0Columbia Army Air Base, supporting\u00a0B-25 Mitchell\u00a0medium bomber training for\u00a0Third Air Force‘s\u00a0III Air Support Command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-airports","category-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28076,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25010\/revisions\/28076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}