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Cornelia Fort Airpark was a privately owned, public-use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) northeast of the central business district of Nashville, in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States.〔 The 141-acre airport was located on part of a plot of land granted to early Nashvillian Ephraim McLean for service in the Revolutionary War,〔Drake, Doug, with Jack Masters and Bill Puryear. ''Founding of the Cumberland Settlements: The First Atlas, 1779 - 1804''. Sponsored by Sumner County, TN Historical Society and published by Warioto Press, 2009, p. D8.〕 near what is still known as McLean's Bend in the Cumberland River in East Nashville. The airport operated from 1944 until 2011, when the city of Nashville acquired it to include it as non-aviation part of Shelby Park. == History == The airport was established in 1944 by the Colemill Flying Service and was named for World War II aviator Cornelia Fort. On March 5, 1963, Patsy Cline was flying to the airport from Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas with a stopover at Dyersburg when her Piper Comanche crashed 90 miles from the airport near Camden, Tennessee. In the early 1950s Ernest W. Colbert bought out his partner to become sole owner and continued in that capacity (operating it as Colemill Enterprises) until selling it in 2011. Colbert had been seeking a buyer after defaulting on loans of $1 million in 2005 and the second for $1.4 million in 2010 (after it was inundated in the 2010 Tennessee floods. With the 2011 purchase, the Shelby Park/Shelby Bottoms/Cornelia Fort area has more than 1,300 acres—the fourth largest public greenspace in Nashville (trailing Beaman, Bells Bend and Warner). After the sale, the property would no longer be serving small private planes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cornelia Fort Airpark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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