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Wartime Use and Beyond
From 1942 until 1945, Smith Reynolds Airport served as a training
base for military pilots in addition to its commercial and private
airline services. Camel City Flying Services had become Piedmont
Aviation, Inc. in 1940 and spent the 1940's building a base in flight
training and airline sales. The company grew to over 80 employees
by 1947 when the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Piedmont Airlines
a temporary certificate for regional air service. The company split
into two divisions in order to continue the fixed base services
and service four feeder line routes extending from Wilmington, NC
to Cincinnati, Ohio, servicing twenty-two airports with one of three
of the original DC-3's affectionately known as the Pacemakers.
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