Turner Air Force Base Restoration Advisory Board under consideration

ALBANY -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, is seeking public feedback no later than July 10, 2024, regarding interest in establishing a Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) for the Turner Air Force Base Formerly Used Defense (FUD) Sites property, located in Dougherty County, approximately one mile east of Albany and just south of the Flint River.

The former Turner Air Force Base, originally called Turner Field, was constructed in 1941 by the Department of Defense as an Army Air Force Base that was used as a twin-engine flight school. Turner Field was closed in 1945, following the end of World War II, but reopened in 1947 as an Air Force training facility and renamed Turner Air Force Base.