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Payne Field is a former World War I military airfield located 4.3 miles (6.9 km) north-northeast of West Point Mississippi. It operated as a training field for the Air Service United States Army between 1918 until 1920.The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I. It was the first airport constructed in Mississippi.