Tom B. David Airport

05/28/2026

New Date is 6/6!!

05/27/2026

✈️🏎️UPDATE (12:30 P.M. MAY, 27, 2026): RESCHEDULED TO SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH!!! ANNUAL WINGS & WHEELS: Due to the continued rain expected through early next week, the annual Wings & Wheels event at Tom B. David Airport has been rescheduled to NEXT SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH, from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.! There will be lots of planes, cars and food vendors!

05/26/2026

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05/23/2026

05/22/2026

Dassault Falcon 7X visit today.

05/19/2026

05/19/2026

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.

05/18/2026

Looking for a graduation gift idea?? A discovery flight with Air Adventures!! Call 706-980-3478 for more information!!

05/16/2026

Bob Albritton flew one of his cross-country flights to her airport back when he was a student pilot in the early 1950s. She gave Dwight Albritton his single engine commercial check ride. She gave David Albritton his private pilot check ride. We believe that some of the older Airport guys got their private license from her also! Let us know if you know of anyone who did!!

Evelyn Bryan Johnson was born in Corbin, Kentucky, in 1909, just six years after the Wright brothers' first flight. She did not take her first solo flight until she was 35 years old.

After her husband joined the Army Air Corps following Pearl Harbor, she found herself running their laundry business alone, working 18-hour days. Looking for an escape from the routine, she signed up for flying lessons.

She took her first solo flight on November 8, 1944, and never looked back. She earned her commercial license in 1946, became a flight instructor in 1947, and was named a designated FAA pilot examiner in 1952.

She was also one of the first female helicopter pilots in the United States, and she owned Morristown Flying Service in Tennessee for 33 years.

By the end of her flying career, Johnson had logged 57,635.4 flight hours. That is the equivalent of six and a half years spent in the air. Guinness World Records listed her as the woman with the most flight time in history.

Only one pilot, Ed Long of Alabama, had ever logged more, with about 64,000 hours.
One of her students nicknamed her "Mama Bird" because of the way she watched over them. By her own estimate, she trained around 5,000 pilots and administered more than 9,000 checkrides during her career.

Many of her former students went on to fly for FedEx, American, United, Delta, and US Air. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.

Evelyn Bryan Johnson died on May 10, 2012, in Tennessee. She was 102 years old.