Griffin–Spalding County Airport

[3] Despite the relatively short length of its then 3,100-foot-long (940 m) runway, Griffin's airport hosted various large piston aircraft including the Douglas DC-3 and the Aviation Traders Carvair, a cargo conversion of the DC-4 from the 1970s until the 1990s.

[2] On April 4, 1997, at 12:16 am, a Custom Air Service flight going to Rockford, Illinois, via Albany, Georgia, using an Aviation Traders Carvair crashed into a disused Piggly Wiggly grocery store 1,360 feet (410 m) beyond the departure end of Runway 32 following an engine failure during the takeoff roll.

[5] On November 21, 2003, at 12:45 pm, a Beechcraft Baron crashed due to the loss of engine power during a maintenance flight approximately one-quarter mile (0.40 km) beyond the departure end of Runway 32.

[6] Another incident at the airport occurred on November 11, 2009 when a pilot attempted to flee from authorities in his DC-3 after being cited for driving his automobile on the runway.

[8] A sum of $55.4 million in federal and state funding has been secured to relocate the airport within Spalding County.

The Aviation Traders Carvair N83FA that crashed on April 4, 1997