Clayton County Airport-Tara Field

at Clayton County Airport - Tara Field

From Garry Hewes on 07-Sep-2009

If you are timid about flying in here for a race day, don’t be. They are organizes and courteous. Landing fee was $100 for the race, and well worth it if you consider fuel, rent a car, hotel and parking not to mention traffic, it was way cheaper this way and we were back home a couple hours after the race. Besides it was cool to run in to drivers after the race. Garry Hewes 7248Y
 

From Allan Lane on 15-Jun-2009

Arrived in our Aztec Clayton airport 06/12/09--departed 06/14/09. Absolutely the worst service in my 50 years of flying. An example of a county run airport with little direction on how to run an FBO. No help from line service for parking and baggage handling. The self-service fuel farm was out of service and the FBO is closed on weekends!! We had to fly to Griffin (6A2) airport for fuel prior to our return to Fort Myers (FMY).
 

From Tony Goss on 09-Mar-2009

Thanks Tara Field for another great race. We landed our Piper 180 Saturday night and enjoyed a great day of racing on Sunday. Be sure to check out Raceway Ministries tent just outside of the Petty stand for fellowship and FREE pancake breakfast when there. The folks at Tara Field are the greatest. See you again soon...
 

From Chris Silver on 09-Mar-2008

Tara field is a nice airport but the FBO office acted like they had better things to do than help us out when we came in. (the line crew were nice though).
 

From David Legeros on 07-Dec-2007

Tara is an excellent field for training and to visit the beautiful South Atlanta area! Also, check out Pan Pacific on the field for some world-class flight instruction in state-of-the-art aircraft (C172SP, DA40XL, DA42TwinStar) at competitive prices. Pan Pacific runs a charter operation with comfortable J32 service too! Very uncongested for primary students, yet close enough to the class B action for the advanced students!
 

From Tony Goss on 28-Oct-2007

Read my previous post after reading this one... Headed to 4A7 to work the Saturday race... I am based out of ALX and noticed no traffic on radio the entire flight. Got within 13 miles of Tara Field and realized my radio is not working. 2 weeks earlier my wife bought me an Icom handheld and it saved the day. Told the folks at 4A7 I was "nervous just realized my radio was out and was on a handheld" and they told me I had the all clear to land...They are such great people. They calmed me at least enough to land and once on the ground talked to me like they have known me all my life. It sure made an embarrassing moment pass quicker. Thanks again 4A7 see you next race, if not sooner.
 

From Larry Rachman on 01-Apr-2007

While the Clayton County facility isn't the fanciest place around, it was certainly up to the task. The Enterprise car I requested arrived on schedule, and my fuel order was filled by the time I returned the next day, at a fairly reasonable price. If you're looking for glamour (and $5 gas!) go elsewhere, but if you just want to land and do what you have to do, this is a fine place to do it.
 

From C Winship on 18-Nov-2006

Unfortunately the folks at Tara have gotten greedy when it comes to fuel. They use to be the low cost leaders in this area. Now, they are .40/gal higher than Griffin (10 miles away) and .55/gal higher than OPN (25 miles away). Trying to make too much money on the Atlanta Motor Speedway crowd, but affecting us all. Oil and gas prices have plummeted over the last month...Not at Tara. Go somewhere else! I do!