![]() I've copied a great deal from it here before but for the purposes of today's tale I'm going to take the liberty of copying another snippet from Chapter Six. ![]() This is an amazing book so full of little known facts and stories about the early age of the airplane in Austin. I first read about these airports in a book I've mentioned here quite a bit called Austin, Cleared for Takeoff Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City by Kenneth B. Both were started during WWII and both gone by 1950 for different reasons. The other was called Aero-Tel Airport and was somewhere off of 183 in what today is the northwest part of town. Edwards University on the eastern side of South Congress where I-35 crosses today. ![]() One of the lost airports that isn't on the list was east of where Penn Field was in World War I, southeast of St. But come to find out that this site isn't complete! Also various airports in the surrounding area. You can see names like Haile Airport and University Airport and their locations, also Penn Field and Austin Municipal (Mueller). For this area, the website divides the old airports into those on the East side and those on the West. There is an old internet site, about as old as Google, called Abandoned and Little Known Airfields. This one has been stewing in me for a while and I have to get it off my chest. Sorry to do a wall of text post for two weeks in a row but there are no photos on the internet of the subjects of today's post.
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