Aviation View July 2023
38 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 ith passenger traffic steadily increasing for 2023, regional airports across the US have had to look at key initiatives to help capture some of this air traffic. For Kinston Regional Jetport, operational upgrades have taken off and the dynamic airport is more than ready to meet private aircraft passenger demand, as well as cargo service cargo in and out of eastern North Carolina. Tracing its roots back over 70 years, The United States Marine Corps built Kinston Jetport in 1944 as a training airfield, however, it was closed in 1945. During the Cold War and the expansion of the Air Force, Kinston Air Base was re-created in 1950 but then closed once more by 1957. W
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