Originally Posted by
Hoser
TGE airport isn't where they were trained. The actual base is NW of TGE north side of I-85. You can still see the multi runway layout and the main base area. It's owned by some company in Georgia the last I was aware of. There's also a field east of MGM ( Taylor Field) that was a WWI training base. A marker is there and you can still see building foundations. Mostly subdivisions now though where the field was.
Hoser
I hear ya, ive seen that old airport and that makes sense because I think it was larger. And most training airports had the triangle setup but Moton never looked like it was built that way, maybe it was. But there's some sort of old barracks and hangar at Moton field that you could walk up to. Not sure but I always assumed by the age and ivy on it that it was theirs but this was back in the late 90s. If it was theirs it literally looks like it hasn't been touched since. Kind of cool. Better than going to a castle only to find out it was modified hundreds of times in hundreds of years, this looked mostly untouched although it probably was used well after.
I had heard the airport you talk about was where they did training and B25 training but not sure if that was correct or not.
One thing about Moton field is I never went there at night for landings, we had someone nail a deer there on a touch n go but I found people used it for drag racing, sometimes with their lights off so as not to be seen. It was mostly unattended there.