Fulton County Airport (Georgia)
For other airports with this name, see Fulton County Airport.
Fulton County Airport at
Charlie Brown Field is a local
airport located just west of
Atlanta, and run by
Fulton County of the
U.S. state of
Georgia. It is the nearest airport to
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (which is just south of Atlanta), and handles much of the
general aviation traffic that would otherwise go there.
It is located very near
Interstate 20,
Interstate 285, and the
Chattahoochee River, just outside the Atlanta
city limits. It reports
ASOS weather conditions 24 hours per day as
West Atlanta. It also acts as the nearest
backup station when
Dobbins Air Reserve Base does not report overnight.
Its name comes not from
Charlie Brown, the principal character in the
comic strip Peanuts by
Charles M. Schulz, but from the
nickname for former Atlanta politician
Charles M. Brown, who served on the
city council and
county commission during the
1960s. It is also called
Charlie Brown Airport or
Brown Field (not to be mistaken for the word "
brownfield").
The "hundred dollar hamburger" is a widely recognized term in the aviation industry, referring to the "fly in" restaurants at or near general aviation airports. Fulton County Airport is host of one such place with the busy "Flight Deck Cafe" located in the main terminal building serving Southern-style food to a lunch-time crowd of locals, pilots and airport personnel.
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Fulton County Airport webpage
