Columbia Air Center | |||
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| Summary | |||
| Serves | Croom, Maryland | ||
| Built | 1941 | ||
| In use | 1941-1958 | ||
| Coordinates | 38°45′22.6″N 76°42′20.5″W / 38.756278°N 76.705694°W | ||
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closed 1958 | |||
The Columbia Air Center was an airfield in Croom, Maryland from 1941 to 1958. It was started by African American pilots who were not permitted to use other airports, but was also open to whites.[1] It had an all black staff,[2] and a number of the trainers had served in World War II as Tuskegee Airmen.
John R. Pinkett founded the airport in Croom, Maryland, in Prince George's County on leased land near the Patuxent River. It housed up to five runways, three hangars, ten planes, and an all-black chapter of the Civil Air Patrol. The airport was operated from 1941-1954 by John William Greene Jr, and also by Tuskegee Airmen, Herbert Jones Jr., who would later form International Air Association, the first African-American owned airline.[1][3][4]
In 1959, the property was purchased by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and became the first part of the Patuxent River Watershed Park.[1]
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Double Discovery Center at Columbia is a program designed to help New York City high school students learn more about college and the attitudes you need to be successful in high school and in college. Double Discovery means bringing the community to Columbia and taking Columbia to the community. When I started the Double Discovery program, I was hoping to get a good feel of what I need to do to get into the right college. I also was hoping to get help in math because that's not my strongest subject. About 50% of students graduate from high school in New York City. We are having over 90% of our students graduate from high school. What's special about our students is they are further at risk in that they are first-generation college-bound, and they come from economically depressed communities. There's so much emphasis on getting good grades, but there's a lot more that goes into being successful like your family, your peers, and having positive role models, so for me I really hope that I can become one of those positive role models. I'm actually an alumnus of the Double Discovery Center. So my mom found out about the program walking by the neighborhood so she enrolled me in the program in about 10th grade. I began receiving SAT prep, college counseling, help with my college applications. Fourteen years later, here I am working with the Double Discovery Center and helping young adults similar to myself. When you go to the graduation when these students are leaving high school and hear how they talk about the people in the program have helped them to change their lives, it's just very, very moving. [music and cheering]
References
- ^ a b c Andy Zieminski (February 7, 2008). "County's first black-owned airport becomes training ground". Gazette.net: Maryland Community Newspapers Online. Archived from the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
- ^ Washington Afro-American newspaper article of August 16, 1941, as quoted in Clayton Davis. "Columbia Air Center, Croom, Maryland". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27.
- ^ Courtland Milloy (23 December 1998). "One Man's Flight Plan". The Washington post.
- ^ The Washington Post. 29 March 1989.
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External links
- Clayton Davis. "Columbia Air Center, Croom, Maryland". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27.
- Cloud Club II
- Columbia Air Center from The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, who now runs the park
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