This site was I believe actually in West Green GA, just outside of Douglas and belonged to Super Sod. I was stationed at Charleston AFB and got back into rocketry in the mid to late 80s. Somehow I heard about Tripoli Coastal Georgia. At the time they were flying at an old helicopter training field west of Savannah. Paul Gennrich was Prefect, John Cato, Earl Cagle, Tom Binford and others were regulars. We would drive down on flying weekends, usually for a one day launch. The field (Sand Hill) was nice but limited. John Cato who lived in Nicholls GA is the one who located the West Green field and did all of the legwork. He managed to have it designated as a range, only one phone call to the FAA to activate and we were good to fly. Sometimes if I would have a weekend off and if the weather looked good, I would call John and see if he felt like launching. We would call around and see who all could make it, those were some of my most enjoyable rocket launches. John always wanted to have bigger launches and worked toward that end. We ended up with some people like Ross Dunton and Mike Platt driving pretty long distances to come fly. This was the place I first met the infamous Dangerous Dave Gawlik. It was a great place to fly being two almost 1 mile dia. circles laid out in a figure eight totaling almost 2 miles long and a mile wide. This was before the days of good altimeters and dual deployment. If you went into the pines off the field, recovery was questionable.
In 1992 it became clear the USAF really was going to retire the beloved C-141. The replacement, the C-17 had no Flight Engineer so I was scrambling to find a new airframe. In 93 I ended up at Tinker AFB in OKC flying the E-3. Some time after I left, the fireworks began with John C and the field was lost forever. I wasn't there so I can't comment. There are others who know better what happened but we lost John in 2015 so he is unable to provide his side. You can still find the old field on Google Maps but it looks like it may have been plowed for regular crops. It's unfortunate, it was one of the best places I have flown in the Southeast.
I Still have some old VHS tapes from the early 90s at West Green. If anyone wants to try and convert them or just see them, let me know.
