History
The airport originally began during early World War II as Naval Air Station Atlanta, which subsequently moved to Marietta on the south side of Dobbins Air Reserve Base until the naval air station portion of Dobbins was closed by BRAC action in 2009. The property was part of Camp Gordon, a World War I era training camp. Leased from the county by the United States Navy, it was converted from military to civilian use from 1957 to 1959. The former barracks located there during the war became classrooms in late 1948 for Southern Technical Institute, a new engineering technology school created by Georgia Tech for former soldiers. Like NAS Atlanta, that school moved around 1958 to land donated by Dobbins, and is now known as Southern Polytechnic State University. In 1973 it was the site of a Learjet crash.
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