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Scribner State Airport

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trees, and a mock silo beside the barn really housed the sliding hangar doors. Another building was given a steeple and painted to resemble a church, and a "school house" was built with spun-glass children. Even the runways were coated with tar and coated with wood chips and ground corncobs, and painted green or brown, depending on the season.
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Scribner also became a camouflage school. By 1943 the entire airfield was camouflaged to look like a farm and small village to prove that an airfield could be hidden from the enemy. The hangar was painted red to resemble a barn, chicken wire was stuffed with green colored spun glass to resemble
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would be built came on 1 October 1942, with eviction notices given to area farmers shortly thereafter. Construction soon began, with two runways completed by 26 November 1942. 87 buildings and structures were built. The base opened on 9 December 1942.
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The USAAF training airfield closed on 31 December 1945 and the State of Nebraska acquired the Airfield property from the U.S. Government in 1946. By 1951, word came that the then surplus Scribner Air Base was being considered as the site of a proposed
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The remainder of the former Airfield was rented out. Nebraska Department of Aeronautics continues to operate the airfield, leasing storage and small segments of land to local concerns. A
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training airfield. The 2,060-acre (8.3 km) site is south of the Elkhorn River and is surrounded by low rolling hills on the east, north and west. The area is agricultural.
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of 1,325 feet (404 m). It has two concrete runways: 17/35 is 4,200 by 75 feet (1,280 x 23 m) and 12/30 is 3,199 by 60 feet (975 x 18 m).
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Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History.
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In the year ending August 17, 2022, the airport had 2,550 aircraft operations, average 49 per week: 98%
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Scribner AAF was one of eleven training airfields in Nebraska, and came under the command of
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A few wartime buildings still are in use, along with the remains of the wartime runways.
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fighter pilots completed proficiency training at Scribner before reassignment to the
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and 2% military. 12 aircraft were then based at the airport: 10 single-engine and 2
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The field's primary mission was to provide aircrew training for
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Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Nebraska
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Scribner Army Air Field

IATA
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Scribner, Nebraska
Everett Township, Dodge County
Scribner, Nebraska
AMSL
Coordinates
41°36′37″N 096°37′48″W / 41.61028°N 96.63000°W / 41.61028; -96.63000
KSCB is located in Nebraska
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Federal Aviation Administration
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ICAO
FAA
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Scribner
Dodge County
Nebraska
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elevation
general aviation
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United States Army Air Forces

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