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Historic aircraft at Greenville Downtown Airport

1953 · GMU history

A new terminal takes shape

The current terminal building was constructed in 1953, giving Greenville a modern civic front door for commercial air travel.

Greenville Downtown Airport

The current terminal building was constructed in 1953, giving Greenville a modern civic front door for commercial air travel.

Historic Greenville airport commercial terminal
The terminal connected Greenville's commercial-airline years to GMU today.Airport-provided history archive

The story so far

The terminal is one of the clearest physical links between GMU’s commercial-airline years and its present general-aviation role.

Airport materials report a later renovation in 1991, while one working document references 1992. The site uses the airport’s currently published 1991 date and keeps the discrepancy visible to editors.

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