Business View Magazine | August 2019

152 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 L ee Gilmer Memorial Airport is a public- use, general and corporate aviation airport located in Gainesville, a city in Hall County, Georgia. The Airport was just a dirt airstrip in 1941, when the City of Gainesville petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Administration for permission to build a larger municipal facility. World War II intervened and, in 1943, the U.S Navy leased the airport land from the city for one dollar and proceeded to develop the base with intersecting, 4,000-ft. runways with parallel taxiways, aircraft and electronics maintenance facilities, and related support structures. During the war, it functioned as a satellite of the Naval Air Station at what is now DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. The mission of the Gainesville facility was to train ground personnel in ground controlled approach (GCA) procedures, using truck-mounted radar to track approaching target aircraft. Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport A high quality airport