Kershaw County's Woodward Field (aka Camden Airport)
Woodward Field's beginnings...
Named after philanthropist and equestrian Ernest Woodward, the airport dates back to 1929, when Woodward purchased and donated the land for use as a landing field for local barnstormers who at the time were frequently using what is now Springdale Racecourse. Records indicate that there was, for a time, a regularly scheduled regional airline service which had a stop at Woodward Field. WWII...
In 1941, the US Army Air Forces indicated a need for use of the field as a training airfield. Activated in March of 1941, Woodward Field was used by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center (later known as the Eastern Flying Training Command), as a basic flight training facility. The Camden-based Southern Aviation School was the civilian contractor providing the flight instruction. Aircraft used included the PT-17 Stearman biplane, the Fairchild PT-19, and also a few Curtiss P-40 Warhawks (a single engine fighter aircraft, not used for primary flight training). Morgan, the pilot of the famous B-17 “Memphis Belle” (the first American bomber to successfully complete 25 missions over Europe) completed his primary flight training at Woodward Field. Military flight training concluded in August 1944, and the field was returned to civilian control. The Present...
Today, while there are no scheduled commercial airline operations at Woodward Field, it's a very active facility, with 20,000 General Aviation local flight ops (55%), 15,810 GA itinerant flight ops (43%), 328 Air Taxi flight ops (1%), and 262 military flight ops (
