Cottage Grove State Airport
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Cottage Grove State Airport or Jim Wright Field , is a public airport
serving small general aviation aircraft, located one mile (1.6 km) east of the city of Cottage Grove
in Lane County, Oregon
, USA
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On December 17, 2003 the airfield was named after Jim Wright, a local aviator and business man who painstakingly built a reproduction Hughes H-1 Racer
. Wright perished in a tragic accident in the aircraft on August 4, 2003.
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
serving small general aviation aircraft, located one mile (1.6 km) east of the city of Cottage Grove
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Cottage Grove is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It received its name from its first postmaster, G. C. Pierce, in September 1861. Pierce's home at the time was in an oak grove. The population was 9,686 at the 2010 census.-History:...
in Lane County, Oregon
Lane County, Oregon
-National protected areas:*Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge *Siuslaw National Forest *Umpqua National Forest *Willamette National Forest -Government:...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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On December 17, 2003 the airfield was named after Jim Wright, a local aviator and business man who painstakingly built a reproduction Hughes H-1 Racer
Hughes H-1 Racer
The Hughes H-1 was a racing aircraft built by Hughes Aircraft in 1935. It set a world airspeed record and a transcontinental speed record across the United States...
. Wright perished in a tragic accident in the aircraft on August 4, 2003.