| xoxoxoBruce |
12-16-2006 09:13 AM |
That's pretty interesting, glatt. Starting in the 30s and building up to....
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The business expanded, and Zahn's Airport became at the time the largest privately airport in America.......
.....It eventually grew into the region's largest general aviation airport, with more than 200 resident aircraft & helicopters.
A 1953 article in Flying Magazine described Zahn's Airport as having a 4,200' paved runway, which was described as "handling DC-3s with ease."
The airfield had a total of 35 T-hangars & two larger concrete hangars. Two more concrete hangars (described as "being large enough to house four DC-3s) were under construction, as was a 3,000' east/west runway & runway lights.
A National Guard unit had 40 L-19s & two Navions based at Zahn's, and it had a new hangar under construction for 10 helicopters which were planned to be based at Zahn's.
On a good Sunday afternoon it was not unusual to be 8th or 10th on downwind with every mix from J-3s to twins. "With that traffic, after moving to the Comanche I learned a lot about slow flight.”
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We're talking serious operation here, not a grass clearing in the outback.
And then.....
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Zahn's was bought by the town in 1980 & turned into an industrial park.
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What? Just like that? Gone?
NO no no, there has to be more to it. There has to be a story. People fed up with the noise.... angry public meetings..... behind the scenes meetings and skullduggery...... the Mafia, the FBI, Soviet spies, connected competitors. Something? :worried: |
