Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico

Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico
Turner Field
Part of Marine Corps Base Quantico
Triangle, Virginia in the United States
A US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sits on the flight line at MCAF Quantico in 2014.
MCAF Quantico Location in the United States
Coordinates	38°30′13″N 077°18′18″W / 38.50361°N 77.30500°W / 38.50361; -77.30500
Type	Marine Corps Air Facility
Site information
Owner	Department of Defense
Operator	US Marine Corps
Controlled by	Marine Corps Installations National Capital Region
Condition	Operational
Website	www.quantico.marines.mil/mcaf/UnitHome.aspx
Site history
Built	1931 (1931)
In use	1931 – present
Garrison information
Current commander	Lieutenant Colonel Robert S. Vuolo
Garrison	Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1)
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: NYG, ICAO: KNYG, FAA LID: NYG, WMO: 724035
Elevation	3.3 metres (11 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 02/20 1,295.4 metres (4,250 ft) Asphalt
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico (MCAF Quantico) (IATA: NYG, ICAO: KNYG, FAA LID: NYG) is a United States Marine Corps airfield located within Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. It was commissioned in 1919 and is currently home to HMX-1, the squadron that flies the President of the United States. The airfield is also known as Turner Field, after Colonel Thomas C. Turner, a veteran Marine aviator and the second director of Marine Corps Aviation,^[2] who lost his life in Haiti in 1931.

On 12 August 2010, a new Quantico air facility to accommodate maintenance and storage of HMX-1 helicopters was dedicated in honor of Marine One founding commander Col. Virgil D. Olson (1919–2012).^[3]