McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base (Knoxville)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Hosted a two-day NHRA Southeastern regional meet in 1963
- Raced
- 1963
- State
- Tennessee
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- McGhee Tyson Airport
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- July 27, 1963
- Last race
- July 28, 1963
- Track
- 10,000-foot runway
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- McGhee Tyson Airport, twelve miles south of Knoxville
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 966 ft (294 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.81273, -83.99742
McGhee Tyson Airport is a public and military airport twelve miles south of Knoxville. On July 27-28, 1963, the Air National Guard allowed a two-day NHRA Southeastern regional meet on its 10,000-foot runway.
Background
The airport is named for Charles McGhee Tyson, a Navy pilot killed in World War I, and it sits in Alcoa under the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority. The Guard side of the field is home to the Tennessee Air National Guard's 134th Air Refueling Wing.
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