Английская Википедия:Davis Airport (Michigan)
Davis Airport Шаблон:Airport codes was a general aviation airport located Шаблон:Convert north of East Lansing, in DeWitt Township, Michigan, United States.
Facilities
Davis Airport was situated at an elevation of Шаблон:Convert above mean sea level northwest of the intersection of Coleman Road and Chandler Road in southeast Clinton County. The airport had five hangars at the east end of the airfield.
Runways
Davis Airport had three runways.[1]
- Runway 9/27: Шаблон:Convert, surface: turf
- Runway 16/34: Шаблон:Convert, surface: turf
- Runway 4/22: Шаблон:Convert, surface: turf
History
Davis Airport is named after Major Arthur J. Davis, a Lansing aviator during the 1920s and 1930s, who operated Michigan Airways, Inc. from a field in East Lansing and at Capital City Airport.[2]
Davis was an original "barnstorming" pilot prior to the war and a few who had the opportunity to fly with him in his "taper wing" Waco F series biplane in the years following the War cherish those memories.
After World War II Davis opened the airport, then located Шаблон:Convert north of East Lansing, at the location of Chandler's Marsh.[3] One of the earliest records of the airport is from the November 1954 Milwaukee Sectional Chart, which then depicted Davis Airport as having a Шаблон:Convert unpaved runway.[1]
The airport was the home to many local pilots for years. Many pilots learned to fly at the airport under the instruction of Harold D. Coakley, who became a flight instructor upon the close of WWII after serving in the Army Air Corps.
The airport was managed by Dale H. Sheren for many years, who was a close friend of Art Davis. Sheren managed the airport until his death in 1976.
In January 1992, three man faced five felony charges for larceny, malicious destruction, and breaking into airplanes and a van at the airport.[4] On August 6, 1992, a small plane skidded past a runway, hit an embankment, and flipped over Chandler Road, landing upside down in a ditch.[5]
In 1999 approximately 20 aircraft were based at the airport.[6]
The airport closed on May 5, 2000, and was developed into apartment buildings.[1]
See also
- List of airports in Michigan
- Clinton County, Michigan
- DeWitt Charter Township, Michigan
- East Lansing, Michigan
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Freeman, Paul. Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Southeastern Michigan Шаблон:Webarchive, airfields-freeman.com, retrieved 2010-Apr-26
- ↑ National Park Service, Chesapeake/Allegheny System Support Office. Photographs Written Historical and Descriptive DataШаблон:Dead link, Historic American Engineering Record, p. 2, memory.loc.gov, May 1995, retrieved 2010-Apr-28
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Associated Press. Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Associated Press. One pilot avoids kids, dies in crash; another survives, Owosso Argus Press, google.com, August 7, 1992, retrieved 2010-Apr-27
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
External links
- Aerial photo as of 07 April 1999 from USGS The National Map
- [1] Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Southeastern Michigan
- Английская Википедия
- Defunct airports in Michigan
- Buildings and structures in Clinton County, Michigan
- Buildings and structures in East Lansing, Michigan
- Transportation in Lansing, Michigan
- 2000 disestablishments in Michigan
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