Yeager Airport earning reputation as home base for military training operations

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2. Where did you get the info that there were lots of deaths?

In a quick Google search, I found a cargo flight in 2017 that killed two, and a flight instructor who died the same year in a Cessna that flipped over. At the time, the Charleston Gazette reported that it was the first fixed-wing fatality at the airport since 1985.

I lived in Charleston for decades, and vaguely remember that 1985 crash, a drug runner who tried to land at the airport after hours.

My general experience in flying in and out of Charleston four times a month for decades was that airline pilots took landing at Yeager Airport very seriously, because the runways were relatively short and because the airport was built on three hilltops with sharp dropoffs at the end of the runways. The Air Force One pilots used to come down on Tuesday afternoons to do touch-and-go's, because the airport was terribly busy and because it's a technically trick landing.