Monroe Regional Airport

Monroe Regional Airport is a public use airport in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States. The airport is owned by the City of Monroe and is located three nautical miles (6 km) east of its central business district.It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport since it has over 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) per year. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 107,290 enplanements in calendar year 2011, an increase of 6.84% from 100,419 in 2010.The airport is advertised as the birthplace of Delta Air Lines; the airport's logo is a variant on the Delta logo.HistoryDuring World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Flying Training Command used the airport as a cadet training center beginning in August 1942.The airfield was named Selman Army Airfield, named after a Navy Pilot, Lieutenant Augustus J. Selman, USN, a native of Monroe, Louisiana, who died in the line of duty at Norfolk, Virginia, on November 28, 1921, of injuries received in an airplane crash.