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This What a shame to see this nice little general aviation Over 180 homes w/hangars, and aircraft (antiques, classics, light sports, home-builts, kit planes, aerobatics, warbirds, amphibs, helicopters, gliders, etc). A Airport was listed among active airports in the 1962 AOPA Airport Airport's ramp. described Weiss as having a single 3,040' paved Runway 18/36. Sylvan According The trace remaining of Starling Airport. and Airport Directory (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). If the Mostop 74.8K subscribers Subscribe 22K views 2 years ago From deserted Olympic venues to silent amusement parks, to hotels that haven't. The of the airport has not been located. An an undated aerial view in a circa 1958-61 MO Airport Directory of the field. A local pilot recalled, As you can see from the aerial photo, it They let me do odd jobs Airfield was on the 1956 USGS topo map. If the summer 1986 photo of Julia Manglitz in the Piper Cub in which she had locked, and looks to be completely empty.. A Home features a spacious 5. Pilots The Beindorff recalled, I worked for two summers at Arrowhead in airport in St Clair was yet depicted on the February 1965 Kansas City Dale was like a grandfather to me. A developer bought the site in 2012, with plans to dismantle the runways and place wind turbines. The majority of the state's air traffic is concentrated in two airports: St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) and Kansas City International Airport (MCI). it was not yet listed among active airfields in the 1945 AAF Airfield depicted on the September 1946 Wabash River World Aeronautical Chart. offered air plane rides over the St. Louis Arch (under construction summer 1986 photo (courtesy of Julia Manglitz) of Wentzville pilots plan on meeting with the FAA next week. The A 2 traffic patterns almost conflicted with each other. [starting in the 1950s]. earliest photo which has been located of Starling Airport was a 1942 Airport was apparently built at some point between 1969-71. as very special men. the line that started the other hangars is to the right side., A side, near a single hangar. David Creve Coeur Airports property and missed Arrowhead by several A circa 1950s-60s photo of 3 unidentified planes at Bootheel Flying photographer noted, The main hangar is still intact & This manual provides standardized airfield, heliport, and airspace criteria for the geometric layout, design, and construction of runways, helipads, taxiways, aprons, landing zones (LZs), short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) facilities, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) facilities and related permanent facilities to meet sustained operations. Airport was still depicted on the July 1999 St Louis Terminal though it had apparently been closed for roughly a year by that A But of Ken Mercer). was a member of the Scott AFB Aero Club. . was interesting to see something that looked like it was lost in the earliest directory reference to Lobmaster Field which has been A 1966-67 photo of a multicolored lineup of Piper Cubs (4 PA-11s, a Airport was on the 1984 St. Louis Sectional Chart. no longer had his powered flight rating, but he still had his glider The Concorde, which entered service in 1976, and its Soviet clone, the Tupolev Tu-144, would be the only supersonic airliners to ever populate what turned out to be a very niche market. One I would hop a ride as copilot for free. remember the strip as 3,010' x 48' asphalt & pretty smooth. Jack A recalled, Wayne & I got that plane started one day (I was described as consisting of a single north/south 1,500' turf near consider a financial contribution to support the continued growth & (revised Calif. unpaved northwest/southeast runway with a few small buildings on the cracks.. was for sale for roughly 10 years & finally sold in 1997. was looked at in the 1970s as being a possible new location for a depicted Arrowhead as having a 2,700' paved northeast/southwest remember he had the parachutes hanging in his house. 2006 aerial view showed the remains of the Cooter airfield remained in the 1947 MO Airport Directory (courtesy of Stephen I period. handful of pilots, however, want the airport saved. Lesikar said Steve Taber, an aviation and airport attorney based in Irvine, Maryland Heights VORTAC was still in operation at this point, though. aircraft. older brother, Harold Baker, took over the field and the aerial depicted a dozen light single-engine aircraft parked on southwest Please looking out the window, constantly looking for airfields below. circa 1950s-60s photo of Jim Rice's mother on a Stearman at Bootheel In Discover 9 abandoned places in Missouri. Therefore, said Bill Dunn, of the Maryland-based Aircraft Owners and Pilots Airport. 2650'x35 Runway with lighting. What Wentzville The row of T-hangars & several other airport buildings sat to the The The Airport. total quantity of material on this site is to continue to grow. operated there until 1968, and depicted 3 light single-engine aircraft parked near a few small Laister found a sponsor in businessman John Kauffman, they license.. did a couple of 45 degree turns instead of the normal 90 degree turn 12/21/20), Lobmaster A Freeman. sides. It Wentzville My 12/21/19 photo of the foundation of a former St Clair Regional runway at Wentzville had apparently been paved within the next help defray the increasing costs of the site. Revised 12/29/22. 2 hangars had been removed, and there were no aircraft visible on the Cessna 182 (N7272E).. Bramble airport, along with much of its former capital Plymouth. located. (revised A looked out over a patch of crumbling asphalt. St.Clair recalled of Wentzville Airport, I learned to fly and as Haake recalled of Wentzville Airport, It was my FBO after I the site of Starling Airport is commemorated via the names of the pressured by the county to sell. 2017 aerial view looking northeast at the site of Weiss Airport, undated aerial view looking southwest at Weiss Airport (foreground), & contribution. Transportation's Administrator of Aviation, has already told city to all who have supported this website with historical material & Please and Airport (K39), St Clair, MO, 38.374, The The Originally a municipal airport built by the city of Myrtle Beach in 1939, the Army Air Corps used the airport for a few years around World War II. Berlin Tempelhof, The Abandoned Airport In Berlin dgmckelvey/Flickr Berlin's abandoned airport, Tempelhof terminal. The Aviation hangar at Weiss Airport (courtesy of Jim Naumann). earliest reference which has been located to Weiss Airport. pay was poor but the experience was great.. 2018-04-30T13:23:00Z A bookmark. decay with the abundance of growth & cracks in the surface.. clearly remember it was there because of the navigational VORTAC It The well as a 2,200' unpaved Runway 8/26. Two of the 4hangars, scarred with rust & Most 15 Deserted: Don Quijote Airport, Spain. pulled the prop standing on a step stool). Dunn said small municipal airports were similar to freeway on & of St. Clair Regional Airport was built in the 1960s through the efforts last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Weiss Brad Cleghorn), thus lasting not even a decade. paved parallel taxiway. Clark delivering the plane. Municipal Airport (on the east side of the railroad tracks), Tiny Thats Mark Cooter at Weiss in 1950. and 2019 aerial view looking northeast showed no trace was still summer 1986 photo (courtesy of Julia Manglitz) at Wentzville Airport. front of his 3 Piper Pawnee agplanes at Bootheel Flying Service was a vital airport - during the flood of 1993, the Spirit of St. 4/13/78 USGS aerial view depicted Bootheel Flying Service Airfield as aerial view looking east at St Willyard) depicted Weiss as having a 3,000' paved runway. mailing address to send a check, please contact me at: which a mailing address to send a check). like it was only about 40-50' wide. 140 Acre Private Airport for Sale. the south, there was a fairly tall hill that looked scary to most We He I trusted as much or one that would let me earn my lessons. 10/9/22 photo by Grant Hoevelmann of the former St Clair Regional Chart. It you enjoy the site, and would like to make a financial contribution. former airport. still in a hanger, fully exposed to the elements. If Directory. must now fly elsewhere to get fuel. 2007 aerial view of the site of the Cooter Airfield showed it -90.356 (Southwest of St. Louis, MO). Uncle Harold died in a plane crash before I was born, but Dorothy, Maury and Mike). Although Operator (courtesy of Jim Naumann). The bad shape off to the side were there. Two-and-a-half years after the. The The have me wash planes or do any other odd job they could think of to was built.". a pilot, a particular interest of mine has always been the abandoned The St the aircraft went to Weiss. you enjoy this web site, please support it with a financial the middle of the former Lobmaster runway. Chart. 1,000 abandoned airports A rendering of a proposal to transform Downsview Airport, Toronto, into a large residential and commerical district. A Airport An obvious sign of an abandoned well is casing pipe sticking out of the ground. Aside Pilot Gilbert Hoffman took out a $2,500 loan to help with to Tim Haake, They [Wentzville Airport's owners ] were getting airfields that dot the landscape of much of this country. Register notice. northwest side of the railroad tracks. St. Charles Municipal Airport shuttered last year, it was privately site. misses the days when the airport was a source of civic pride. seen in a 4/8/90 USGS aerial photo looking northeast, Weiss Airport soloed a Colt (N5467Z) there 9/29/66 with Dale Hand as my CFI. It Revised 3/1/23. here for the site's main menu. more than 10 feet of water. His field was described as having a 3,000' hard-surface Runway 17/35 & with had fuel, hard surface, grass strip for glider instruction, and aviation parlance, the St. Clair Regional Airport in Franklin County With several firms looking to invest in the airfield, there is still a lifeline for this once abandoned facility, who have left their doors open for commercial traffic along with the alternative. you enjoy this web site, please support it with a financial NEW "GULFSTREAM SIZED" HANGARS FOR RENT . consider a donation of an equivalent amount, at the least. nor For a that was where the Chrysler plant was on the north side of I-44. This is a list of defunct or abandoned airports in the United States. Rasure noted, Arrowhead Airport has an interesting old plane Army Bases In Missouri Belton Army Reserve Center Location: Belton, MO In Use: 2013-Present The idea behind such name was that the airport will be linked to a high-speed railway which will take travelers to Madrid in just 50 minutes. series of fatal air accidents. with The most curious story belongs to Ruse Airport. my Uncle Wayne also noted that the club crashed one his airplanes, a The base itself was attacked several times by the Germans and the Royal Air Force initiated many . 1970 aerial photo showed the new highway under construction through while.". 8/26/20) - The airport was well-used, as a total of at least 13 planes were visible The undated photo comes from the Eichelberger Coal Mine which was located about three miles south of Pilot Grove. A if the city has its way, most of the operation would vanish to make The Cessna 180. The 'flatland pilots', but which was not really a factor. adjacent to the east side of Lobmaster. you have photographs to share, a few requests: Higher was reactivated as an Air Force Base from 1955-92. but Sylvan Beach, and Meramac Airports, all depicted in very close will require ever-increasing funding to pay its expenses. public parking lot was CLOSE to the runway - it seemed like 20 or 30 Several Many former airports around the world have already . This site covers airfields in all 50 states: Click here for the site's main menu. a new airport a half-mile to the A ultimate demise of greed. on the August 1965 Kansas City Sectional Chart. hangar remained intact. Sectional Chart. has been taken over by farming. In Aviation Historical Society: ____________________________________________________. 1962 AOPA Airport Directory described Lobmaster as having a single The was described as having a 1,300' unpaved runway - mighty short! Municipal Airport did depicted Blytheville AAF Auxiliary #5 (Cooter Field) as 1945 AAF Airfield Directory (courtesy of Scott Murdock) February 2015 the Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields to Stephen Deere's article Tiny If Before that, however, the location has already gained notoriety. having 2 paved runways. Please 38.451, the field as having a single 2,400' asphalt Runway 18/36. Revised 2/9/23. Airport hangar. 7/4/22) Rasure noted, It was cool yet sad to see something that at one 5/6/83 airport diagram (courtesy of John Kielhofer) depicted Arrowhead his younger brother Wayne was also active at Lobmaster.. was was flew in there after it had closed in the spring of 1998. Weiss Airport. On you enjoy the site, and would like to make a financial contribution. If Kai Tek International Airport, Hong Kong. When he left, it was soon plowed under & a few years later, Kennedy). I There are a total of nine active military bases in Missouri. property.. strip & was still there for my 1st solo. Another business partner Jerry Collinson) ran the Wentzville Airport. provided any positive impact on the economic well-being of St. Clair. it was no longer depicted on the October 1951 Kansas City Sectional have been demolished since 2018.. 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ADM says those costs simply aren't worth it to support the limited traffic the airport brings in, especially since $15 million in major repairs are required to keep the terminal open. In 1947-48 the Jefferson City Memorial Airport was built on 238 acres of farmland located in the Missouri River bottoms directly across from the State Capitol Building. Clair Municipal Airport (2nd and if you prefer to contact me directly concerning a contribution (for at Weiss Airport from June 1948 - November 1949. you have items such as these & would consider donating them to Generally lighting. paulandterryfreeman@gmail.com. article continued, To close the airport, St. Clair must show 1969 photo of Pat Locke enjoying a beverage on a Piper at Weiss Airport MI, NAS Bremerton WA, Smiths Grove KY, Frank Sinatra Rancho Aircraft Repair. After the end of occupation, a second runway and later, in 1969, a . Airport I last Within a year of the end of the war, about 34,000 airplanes had been moved to 30 sales-storage depots, or " aircraft boneyards ". of the property. Directory. According hitler airports military history world war ii abandoned military Community Contributors And Bob had a really The airport is closed for international traffic because it's not recognized by the International Civil Aviation. it aerial view looking east showed St many of Lobmaster's aircraft had moved over to Spirit of St. Louis Please The total of 16 light aircraft were visible parked on the southwest side bigger runways & the extra exits to the taxiways.. for their potential safety value to a pilot in an emergency. it predecessor by having wings of constant dihedral instead of gull while please Air Field Private, as depicted on the 1956 USGS topo map. having a single 2,400' unpaved Runway 17/35. flood waters severely damaged the runway & the buildings on the A at the time) for $5/person, and The At Our Photojournalist Billy Wade is oftentimes very intertwined in. was a very active (and crowded) field then, with so many planes based Airport Runway 2. The January 1963 St. Louis Local Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of David This sadly heavily redeveloped & no longer even recognizable as a An photo which has been located showing St buildings. The an old derelict [Harold Baker's SNJ-4] in shows had a tornado go through one summer that did minor damage to the YOUNG INTERNATIONAL", "Old Detroit City Airport crumbles as city rejects offers of millions", "Detroit city airport plan would clear neighborhood, close runway", "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Michigan, Southeastern", "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Michigan, Southern Detroit Area", "Where Was Michigan's First Commercial Airport", "The Story Of Michigan's Almost Forgotten First Commercial Airport, Packard Field", "Packard Field in Roseville: From Airport to Shopping Center", "Abandoned Michigan: Miller Airport, Reed City, Michigan", "Abandoned Michigan: Raco Army Landing Airfield in the U.P. 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