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Following World War II, LCDR. B. C. Ferguson left active duty and began searching for a suitable site for an airport. He was operating several Stearmans off a grass strip south of Greenville, Mississippi, crop dusting cotton fields.[[Image:Early_Field.jpg|thumb|right|The first grass strip at Ferguson Airport]]He lived in Navy Point and wanted a place to repair and maintain the Stearmans during the winter off-season. When he located the site on which the airport is now located, it belonged to a man who owned a dairy farm a few miles away. It was sandy scrub land, with very few trees, and reachable only by a dirt road.
==History==
The field started as a 1200 ft. grass strip, starting at the north edge of the present airport. As soon as the land was cleared, a small office building was built South of the present office facility. This was later enlarged into an open hangar, and later further enlarged into an enclosed maintenance hangar.
In 1979, hurricane Frederick did extensive damage to the office building, and leveled one row of hangars. In 1981, an all new facility was built at the north end of the airport to house flight training, maintenance, parts, and pilot testing. At the same time, the runway was paved to 3200 X 40 ft., leaving a 150 ft. grass runway on the west side of the paved one. Additionally, there is a grass taxiway east of the airport, with access to the runway, where several EAA members have hangars built into or alongside their homes.
[[Image:Ivan_2.jpg|thumb|rightleft|Hurricane Ivan damage in 2004]]
In 2004, Hurricane IVAN inflicted considerable damage to the airport, which lost all T-hangars and suffered extensive to the the field itself and other buildings. Since that time, 24 new, enclosed T-hangars with electric doors have been constructed
[[Image:New_Hangars_2.jpg |thumb|leftright|New T-Hangars]]
Ferguson airport is one of the few surviving privately owned, public use airports remaining in this area.
Mr. Ferguson passed away on 30 December 2002. The Ferguson family--son Don, his wife Dee and their daughter Jennifer--have taken took over operation of the airportup until 2008 when it was sold to Westgate Airpark LLC, who now own and operate this little piece of aviation history. Ferguson Flying Service no longer exists; the current flight school and testing center is called the Ferguson Aviation AcademyWrong Bros. Aviator Training School and Maintenance is handled by CAM AviationWest Gate Aircraft Maintenance LLC.
==Airport Information==
===Airport Services===
Fuel available: 100LL& JET A
FUEL AVBL ONLY DURING ATTENDANCE HRS. 24/7
Parking: hangars and tiedowns tie-downs
Airframe service: MAJOR
Runway 18/36
Dimensions: 3200 x 200 140 ft. / 975 x 61 m
Surface: asphalt/turf, in good condition
RY 18/36 EASTERN 40 FT ASPH ENTIRE LENGTH AND WESTERN 160 FT TURF ENTIRE LENGTH.
Runway edge lights: low Medium intensity LED, Standard Lighting
RUNWAY 18 RUNWAY 36
Traffic pattern: left left
==Other images==
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