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Douglas, United States

63rd Army Air Forces Contract Pilot School

Douglas, United States

63rd Army Air Forces Contract Pilot School
Photo: Bubba73 (Jud McCranie) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

The 63rd Army Air Forces Contract Pilot School is a Colonial Revival school building at Douglas Municipal Airport in Coffee County, Georgia, opened in 1941. It was one of the contract schools under the Civilian Pilot Training Act of 1939, which trained civilians as auxiliary military pilots until 1944, and about 9,000 pilots were certified at the Douglas facility. Its surviving buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 2013.

Movement

Built
Type
school building
Heritage
National Register of Historic Places listed place
Place
Douglas, United States

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Location

31.48000, -82.85220