The Stone Mountain Airport (FAA LID: 00A), later also known as Stone Mountain Britt Memorial Airport (after the owner's wife), was a small privately run public-use airport located in Stone Mountain, Georgia (east-northeast of the mountain) from around 1962 until 1996. Used for general aviation, it had a paved runway of either 2,700 feet (820 m) or 3,000 feet (910 m), and a "crosswind" grass runway of unknown length. The fixed-base operator was Stone Mountain Aviation Inc.
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Airport type | public-use (closed) | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Mark Britt | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Stone Mountain Aviation Inc. | ||||||||||||||
Location | Stone Mountain, Georgia | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33.81°N 84.12°W / 33.81; -84.12 (Stone Mountain Airport (closed)) | ||||||||||||||
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It was closed prior to the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics in nearby Atlanta. By the 2000s, the hangars and other buildings had been removed, It is now used for R/C plane hobbyists. Its FAA location ID is now used at an R/C heliport in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
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