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HOW ONE MAN MADE a of Transportation DIFFERENCE Fall 201 4 by Rick Davenport Texas A&M Transportation Irstitute r ® CORSICANA AVIATION: I Department HOW ONE MAN MADE A of Transportation DIFFERENCE Fall 201 4 By Rick Davenport Texas A&M Transportation Irstitute Corsicana Aviation: How One Man Made a Difference 1,3 Physician, pilot, council member, mayor, scuba diver, board president, church leader, militaryhe resume veteran, of Dr. philanthropist,C. David Campbell senior aviationreads likemedical some examiner,incredible high work school of fiction: team doctor for 37 years and winner of the 2014 Aviator of the Year Awa-d. He even has an Dave's Hangar airport named after 2-3 him. But, try to talk to Campbell (his friends call him Dr. Dave) about some of his accomplishments, Off the Beaten Track, But and he'll modestly change the focus. Instead, he talks about the people he had the Worth the Effort: The War good fortune Eagles Air Museum to meet during his 84 years, and simply says "I have been blessed," as if he were an unwitting 4 bystander. So, in order to realize the AOPA at the 2014 EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI impact Campbell made on 5 aviation and his community, you have to talk to the people Grants Received who know him. 6-7 "Dr. Dave has been able to accomplish so many things for Location, State-of-the-Art FBO, History, and Corsicana and its airport I q Continuous Improvements: mbecause he takes on every Lone Star Executive Airport project with determination and 'I,, ~ Has It All! guts," says FBO Gary Farley, I 8-10 who also has a successful aircraft maintenance and Creating Jobs, Saving Lives inspection business. Farley 10-11 gives Campbell the credit fo getting him started 18 years 2015 International Aviation ago. Art Contest-World Air TxDOT 2014 Aviator of the Year Award winner Dr. C. David Campbell by the Games continued on pg. 3 terminal building at Corsicana's airport named in his honor. 12 airports. She graduated from the University of Louisiana at DAVE'S HANGAR Monroe with a Bachelor's Degree in Aviation Management. Her background includes airport operations and security positions at Air Carrier airports, as well as the planning and development of airport projects for both general aviation and air carrier airports during her time at Louisiana's State Aviation Office. Although she calls Louisiana home, Megan was born in New Mexico and lived in El Paso for 5 years during her self-described "Army Brat" years. She has worked at airports of all sizes and is eager to provide a seamless transition and continued support for her newly assigned airports. Aaron Ford joined the Aviation Division in December 2013 as our Property Acquisition Specialist, replacing Scott Bryan jn who has moved on to our Planning and Programming Section. Aaron, an Alabama native, graduated from Faulkner University in Montgomery Alabama and started his TXDOT WELCOMES NEW career in Land Acquisition and Right of Way in 2005 with the Alabama Power Company. He comes to TxDOT Aviation AVIATION DIVISION STAFF with several years of experience in property rights acquisition with oil and gas and electrical transmission and distribution We take a lot of pride in the fact that most employees who companies. Aaron is fully engaged in the land acquisition join TxDO-'s Aviation Division remain with us for their entire process and looks forward to working with you to meet your career. We believe that is because our staff enjoy their jobs airport expansion needs. and are committed to the betterment of Texas aviation. However, time marches on and retirements do occur. During Trudy Hill, a member of our Grants Administration Section, is the past year, we have added four new employees to our a Contract Specialist, responsible for overseeing aviation team that we would like to introduce to you. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise/Historically Underutilized Business Program compliance. She also administers grant Megan McLellan joins our Planning and Programming and contracting processes for airport improvement projects in Section aF the assigned planner to the West Texas Region the Atlanta District as well as managing some of our planning projects. Prior to joining the Aviation Division, Trudy worked for a consulting engineering firm dealing with transportation related contacts. Lisa Maraden is a contract specialist in our Grants Administration Section responsible for administering the Davis Bacon Act regulations in our construction projects. She also assists with the administration of our Routine Airport Maintenance Program (RAMP) and supports internal IT DIRECTOR OF WNGTIPS is an official publication of AVIATI DN the Texas Department of- Transportation initiatives. Lisa has 10 years of customer service experience David S. Fulton Aviation Division. The intent of WNrTIPS is to keep the aviation TxDO1 AVIATION ADVISORY community and others informed of COMMITTEE Gordon Richardson, Cairman (Caldwel I) local developments in aviation. Printed circulation: 4,000. Pete Huff, Vice Chairman (McKinney) Joe Crawford, Menber (Abilene) Comments and suggestions are Mike Schnell, Member (Spearman) welcome. Submission of articles is Michael Collier, Member (Lakeway) subject to space and editorial review John Wiite, Member (San Antonio) and should be directed to the editor at: MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] Chris Sasser Aviation Division, TxDOT Texas A&M Transp station Institute 125 E. 11 th Street [email protected] Austin, Texas 78701-2483 DESIGN AND LAYOUT 512/416-4500 or 1-800/68-PILOT Jason E. Franicky FAX: 512/416-4510 TxDOT Pjblishing ard Design Services http://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/ Communicaticns Division division/aviation. html PRINTED BY Copies of this publication have been TxDOT Print Serv ces, Austin, TX deposited with the Texas State Library in L SLpport Services Division complance with the state Depository Law. 2 r and 7 years of procurement and contract management Megan, Aaron, Trudy and Lisa are committed to good experience. Her work experience with the public as an customer service and look forward to meeting and working employee of the City of Austin and Williamson County and with our airport owners and aviation stakeholders throughout her knowledge of gove-nment purchasing, procurement, and Texas. + contract management make her a great addition to our Grants Management section. CORSICANA AVIATION continued from pg. 1 In addition to running a family practice that would span five Throughout his career on the council, he had a keen interest decades, Campbell's love affair with aviation began when he in the city's airport, where 'there's always something to be was a teenager, in Crowell, Texas. His father was a wheat done.' Campbell, known for his determination, would simply farmer and cattle rancher, who bought a Piper Cub, and later find a way to accomplish various goals, although finding the a Cessna 172, to help with business. Campbell, who wanted money for airport improvements, especially in those days, to be a doctor "since I can remember," learned to fly and was not easy. instantly fantasized about combining both passions. "Dr. Dave led the effort to get bond issues approved for a "A small plane was no- only useful in locating lost cattle and terminal and a new runway," Farley says. "He was able to chasing away the sandhill cranes that would eat the wheat keep the airport viable. Next to his family and his practice, crop, I realized that during duck season I could easily find aviation is his favorite thing in the world. Many of the where the birds were roosting," he said with a grin. improvements here would have never happened had it not been for him." After medical school ard two years in the Air Force as a flight surgeon, Campbell joined his brother and several other So, in 1985, during the dedication of its new terminal physicians to form a medical clinic in Corsicana. By the time building, the city renamed the municipal airport 'C. David he retired, Campbell's patients often included five generations Campbell Field' - which was kept a secret from Campbell of the same family. until the dedication ceremony unveiled a plaque with his name on it. "There are only two professions that allow you to become intimately involved witl- a family: a pastor and a physician. It "It was a great day, and well deserved," Carolyn Pass, one was a privilege, and I oved it," Campbell said. of Campbell's daughters recalls. She and her two siblings, and even her mother, all became licensed pilots, at her When he was nearing retirement, Campbell donated a lot of father's urging. "We always had a plane growing up. That's his medical equipment to an acute care facility in Mexico, how we traveled," she said. One of her fondest memories restored an historic airport building near the terminal and includes having her father "doctor" his young patients' baby moved his practice there, mainly to conduct aviation physicals. dolls that became ill. But his regular patients kept coming, too. Daughter Cheri Hust remembers her dad flying her to Texas One of those long-time patients was Terry Franks, Corsicana's Tech when she began her freshman year. "I learned so many director of Public Works, who Campbell delivered 57 years things about human compassion from my father," she says. ago. "Every morning, dad called his patients that were having a birthday that day. He did that every day, and still does." "One day while I was getting a check-up, Dr. Dave heard a plane land on the runway. He got me and all the other Campbell retired from his medical practice in 2009. "It was patients to come outside and talked the stunt pilot into a sad day," Campbell says. "But there is a time for performing various acrobatic maneuvers for us," Franks says.
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