This may have been posted before, but if not this is a really interesting site which has the history of closed or abandon airports. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm
I couldn't believe how many airports there WERE within just a 50 radius of my home port here in Monterey, CA.
Closed Airports
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Closed Airports
Karl
'53 170B N3158B SN:25400
ASW-20BL
'53 170B N3158B SN:25400
ASW-20BL
Closed airports
I often wondered what happened to the old Baton Rouge Municipal Airport. My wife and I had driven by where it used to be a few years ago and we could not even find a clue that it ever existed. The 1967 photo appears to have on the field two of the airplanes that I flew back then. One was a J3-Cub and the other was a Piper Tri-Pacer. They were aircraft that you could rent from individuals. I lived in Lafayette, LA and did most of my flying with an Aeronca Chief. I did rent a lot of Cessna 150's to fly from Lafayette to Baton Rouge to visit a friend of mine that I grew up with.
Thanks for the information. I'll look around at some of the other airports that have gone by the way. I wish there were some way to bring them back. I was planning to the Baton Rouge Municipal Airport after I get my Cessna 170 B restored. Don't think that will be possible anymore.
I am not certain how they justified closing all that many airports. There are quite a few listed on the site. What a shame to lose such history.
Thanks for the information. I'll look around at some of the other airports that have gone by the way. I wish there were some way to bring them back. I was planning to the Baton Rouge Municipal Airport after I get my Cessna 170 B restored. Don't think that will be possible anymore.
I am not certain how they justified closing all that many airports. There are quite a few listed on the site. What a shame to lose such history.
I remember landing at the old Baton Rouge "Downtown" airport back in 1973, in a Cessna 140. I had picked up one of the pipeline company's airplanes from the Florida-based pilot, to be flown back to the Houston area for a new engine.
What they had failed to tell me was that the engine was making metal.
After a half-day over the swamps of south Alabama/Louisiana I landed at BTR downtown airport for fuel, and then took off again. I got all the way across that mile-wide area of the Mississippi River and over the Atchafalaya swamp when it started running so rough I couldn't read the gauges. Barely got it back across the river in a slow, near-stalling descent and back into downtown airport. Rolled off the runway and got it stopped in the grass.
When I checked it out, the dipstick looked like it was coated with gold, metal-flake paint!
(I went to New Orleans and got drunk in the French Qtr.)
What they had failed to tell me was that the engine was making metal.
After a half-day over the swamps of south Alabama/Louisiana I landed at BTR downtown airport for fuel, and then took off again. I got all the way across that mile-wide area of the Mississippi River and over the Atchafalaya swamp when it started running so rough I couldn't read the gauges. Barely got it back across the river in a slow, near-stalling descent and back into downtown airport. Rolled off the runway and got it stopped in the grass.
When I checked it out, the dipstick looked like it was coated with gold, metal-flake paint!
(I went to New Orleans and got drunk in the French Qtr.)
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
