OT---Abandoned Air Fields

Found this & hope some of the elder War Bird guys can enjoy it.
Maybe a Drag Race on one of these strips someday?

http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/index.htm

 

I always wanted to live at an abandoned airport. Youd have plenty of hangers and a drag strip right in your yard. Too bad they all become subdivisions.

 

Very cool site. I am a private pilot and some of the sites listed I have seen in my area. Some very nice pics.

 

I don't know if its the same facility, but there were drags at the naval air base in RI during the 50's. Used to go there, did some teching (stockers). The racing strip was so long that you could run out of gas before getting to the end.

You had to set up everything the day of the drags and take it down at the end of the day because the base was active Mon to Fri.

 

It's funny you should mention that ... I was just talking to my Grampy last week. He informed me that there is an old air field a couple miles north of him where they brought WWII pilots up to to practice bombing runs. Says it's been abandoned for years ... I wonder if I can talk him into taking me up there...

 

Guess I should have looked closer at the site ... there it is!
"Milford Air Force Auxiliary Airfield, Milford, ME" Now I'm gonna have to check it out!

 

I just learned that my area's airport wasnt the original! Now im on a mission to see whats left of the old one!

 

Someone put a lot of effort into that database. Lot's of interesting info. Thanks for sharing.

 

thank you, thank you , thank you. this thread just brought back a flood of memories. i bought my first airplane at the old bellevue airport ,in1961. it was a1946 taylorcraft bc12d.thats where i learned to fly. i was also stationed at sand point naval air station from 1963 to1968. did the hilicopter thing there,hs891. thanks again i'm loving this.

 

Wow....2 were located within 2 miles of my house! Another 2-3 within 10-15 miles. They failed to list one though that I and a friend found a few years ago on a long,aimless,late-night drive.In the Lemont/Lockport,IL area.

 

were i now live there are old cropduster runways. most arnt used any more and kids get cought up by the cops draging from time to time.

 

Heck we used to drag race during lunch at the old alemeda (new mexico) airfeild the one shot of runway 35....right to the west of that is cibola high school....airfeild was shut scince the 80's...cops would leave us alone there, good fun....big ass mall there and a bunch of houses now (and a home depot etc)

 

are you kidding! im trying to get some work done...now im gunna be up allnight looking through this..thanks so much.

 

cops are realy bored over here. i got pulled over once for haveing a drum of race gas in the bed of my truck they thought i was gonna make drugs or somethin!