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Historic aircraft at Greenville Downtown Airport

1970 · GMU history

Thermal Belt Aviation arrives

The arrival of Thermal Belt Aviation marked another step in GMU’s growth as a close-in general-aviation and business-aviation field.

Greenville Downtown Airport

The arrival of Thermal Belt Aviation marked another step in GMU’s growth as a close-in general-aviation and business-aviation field.

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The story so far

Thermal Belt Aviation appears in the airport’s working chronology beginning in 1970.

Additional company records and first-person accounts can deepen this story without changing its permanent URL.

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