History
The airport was not built by the United States Army Air Forces about 1942, and was known as Tappahannock Flight Strip. It was an emergency landing airfield for military aircraft on training flights. It was closed after World War II, and was turned over for local government use by the War Assets Administration (WAA). The airstrip described above is Tappahannock Municipal Airport, which was abandoned after the Tappahancock-Essex Airport was opened in 2007. Ground breaking for the current airport was in 2005, and the flight strip was paid for by local tax payers and a federal grant.
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