Daniel Field Airport

On March 2, 1942, the III Air Support Command 313th Transport Group TG and the 29th Transport Squadron were activated at Daniel Field with C-47s. In May, the first tenants of Daniel, the 14th and 15th Transport Squadrons were reassigned to Pope Field, North Carolina to support the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. On June 15, the 313th Transport Group, activated three additional squadrons, the 47th, 48th, and 49th, out of the 29th TS. One week later, the 313th and its squadrons moved to Bowman Field, near Louisville, Kentucky to support the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell. During July the observation squadrons all transferred to Smith Reynolds Airport, near Winston-Salem, North Carolina for antisubmarine duty. In 1942, newly built Army Airfields were becoming available in the southeast and the Air Force no longer had the need for Daniel Field and its short runways. No other operational units were stationed at Daniel after August 1942. In February 1943, Daniel was reassigned to the Air Technical Service Command, being under the control of the Warner-Robins Air Depot Control Area. The facilities became a repair and replacement depot for Third Air Force aircraft. Most of the military flying at Daniel was by transient aircraft undergoing 3d and 4th echelon heavy maintenance work.

The shop is very high priced. Every time I get a estimate on annual or maintenance, Daniels is 3times more expensive then other airports. They gave me a estimate of $3400 to do a annual. I fly to another airport and it cost me $1200. I had a com radio go out and I was told $10,000 because it’s standard to rewire my whole dash. I went to a airport just north and it cost $2600 for a new garmin installed. This shop is way overpriced and I am moving my aircraft to a different airport next month.

Called a couple of times to get an estimate on some Cirrus work for two different airplanes. One was getting the synthetic vision upgraded on a SR22 and the other was installing TAWS on another Cirrus SR22. The avionics guy said he would talk to the Cirrus Service Center Manager and get back to me same day. Called before that to get another quote on some work and never received a proposal. There are two fine shops in Atlanta and one in Greenville that do much better if you want Cirrus work. Kinda surprised these guys are have a Cirrus S.C.