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"''And when you take-off from 18, don't let the sun block your view. You'll come face to face with a T-34 real quick, or worse a Blue Lady..."''(referring to the tight airspace Ferguson Airport shares with NAS Pensacola) Ferguson Flight Instructor, Owner Mr. Ferguson.
==History==
Following World War II, LCDR. B. C. Ferguson left active duty and began searching for a suitable site for an airport. He was operating several Stearmans off a grass strip south of Greenville, Mississippi, crop dusting cotton fields.[[Image:Early_Field.jpg|thumb|left|The first grass strip at Ferguson Airport]]He lived in Navy Point and wanted a place to repair and maintain the Stearmans during the winter off-season. When he located the site on which the airport is now located, it belonged to a man who owned a dairy farm a few miles away. It was sandy scrub land, with very few trees, and reachable only by a dirt road.
