The first international flights arrive at McCollum Field in Cobb County.
A Marietta man flew his private plane in from the Bahamas Thursday. The Cobb County airport can handle international flights now that it has a brand new $800,000 customs facility.
Airport manager Karl Von Hagel expects most of the international flights to be corporate jets on business. He anticipates a revenue boost to the county from fuel sales.
Cobb County commissioner JoAnn Birrell celebrates the airport's new phase. "It's history in the making in Cobb County," she tells the Marietta Daily Journal.
The customs facility will be manned at least 40 hours a week by an inspector with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Corporate and private pilots who use McCollum Field say it will save them time and money because they will no longer have to make an intermediate stop at another U.S. airport with a customs facility when traveling internationally.
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