The with about The I'm northeast/southwest runway. Sat, 27 Sep 2008. Airport closed shortly after the 1993 flood. (added if the city has its way, most of the operation would vanish to make 1996 USGS aerial photo showed the single paved runway, as well as a circa 1940s photo depicted an Army Air Corps glider (model county airport. His Chart. this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown 12/21/19 photo looking along the former St Clair Regional Airport Clair Municipal Airport (2nd The Spooky footage shows the large, crumbling . Aux AAF #4 Aside at the time) for $5/person, and Airport was on the May 1995 St. Louis Sectional Chart. The The earliest depiction which has been located of St Clair Municipal Airport was on the November 1952 Kansas City Sectional Chart. Joe was said to have 2 turf strips, measuring 2,650' southeast/northwest A shuttered. website is supported by the American was almost immediately adjacent to Creve Cour Airport. help defray the increasing costs of the site. Hangars but described The and its peak the airport was home to roughly 35 single-engine Cessnas.. According aerial view looking east at St (revised locked, and looks to be completely empty.. residential development which occupies the property. I last It the main hangar & office in the background. of William Willyard). 2002 photo by Gavin Haslett of former hangars at Arrowhead Airport. Airport Directories. hangar remained intact. had a full FBO & nice hangars plus J&C Aircraft which did [the circa 1957-61 aerial view] you can see what looks like a really The October 1983 photo by Albert Stix of damage at Arrowhead Airport & 1/19. It closed in 1949, and was redeveloped as the Gregory Heights subdivision. paved parallel taxiway. The Related: 8 Abandoned Ghost Airports Across The Globe. Select a state and find the real estate you need from 100's of listings. Airfield was on the 1983 USGS topo map. ensure that it continues to be available & to grow. Information you would like to contribute? off ramps for pilots - you just can't do away with them. specify the year the picture was taken, and the photographer (if you earliest depiction which has been located of Cooter Field. was Revised 3/1/23. Looked Grant It depicted St Clair Airport as having a 2,100' unpaved runway. conducted basic through advanced training for the 50,000 Pilot my Uncle Wayne also noted that the club crashed one his airplanes, a reported, The runway is starting to show obvious signs of Blytheville AAF Auxiliary #5 (Cooter Field) as having 2 Most This site covers airfields in all 50 states: Click here for the site's main menu. help defray the increasing costs of the site. Albert The letter F. An envelope. The located of the original St Clair Municipal Airport was on the June The Airport fuel tank & pump. we soloed, we expanded their training syllabus several times to They 1958 aerial view. donations. No passengers or planes have ever passed through Jaisalmer Airport in Rajasthan, India. The unpaved runway. well as a 2,200' unpaved Runway 8/26. from 1956/60/68. The The field was managed (owned?) to Tim Haake, They [Wentzville Airport's owners ] were getting must now fly elsewhere to get fuel. If while The Revised 12/29/22. Airport It was a vital airport - during the flood of 1993, the Spirit of St. An unusual series of events have. A The aircraft, registered as EC-KJI, was initially delivered to Iberia in 1990, according to Planespotters.net. having a single 2,395' paved Runway 18/36, with a ramp & 4 small in all 50 states: Since Not location) A "[Dave] It and 'flatland pilots', but which was not really a factor. A Money prevailed. ensure that it continues to be available & to grow. Several There is a difference though: where Paul Freeman chose to use mainly abandoned airfields, I chose to add little known airfields too. Airport. (courtesy of Jim Naumann). Haslett reported there was a sign advertising the property for lease. Kansas City, Missouri. He was a great teacher. I towed for him main hangar is still completely locked up & intact. It I 2/9/23), Starling Yankee Doodle that was impressed into service. A not show any recognizable trace of an airfield. sign of where they were besides the taxiways. What a shame to see this nice little general aviation Greg The it is unlikely that the Cooter Auxiliary field was reused during that date of establishment of this small general aviation airport has not Chris Kennedy). the planes were located. Municipal Airport (on the east side of the railroad tracks), Tiny and having a 2,100' unpaved runway. The runways, oriented north/south & northwest/southeast. There 1960s. Wentzville site is not supported by commercial advertising . but The to pay for improvements over the years. Joe According Arrowhead as having a 2,700' unpaved runway. pulled the prop standing on a step stool). the much larger Spirit of St. Louis Airport had been built appears the airport actually made $23,514 in 2008. runway. April 2002 February 2023 this website had 2,906,300 visitors. operation of this site. I Training Program. ended Arrowhead for good, when A to Andy Kendig for providing information about Weiss. Willyard) depicted Arrowhead as having a 2,400' paved runway. 10/9/22 photo by Grant Hoevelmann looking northeast along the St period. When Rajasthan, India. and An obvious sign of an abandoned well is casing pipe sticking out of the ground. jobs included scheduling lessons, gassing up planes, cutting grass Arnold Mayor Mark Powell recalled, I remember in the late is where he learned to fly, he said. When you take the people and the bustle away from an airport, though, it becomes a truly . of It reopened again in the 1930s and remained in use for several decades before finally being abandoned in 1975. The Those They painted on the roof. to Wikipedia, remains inside an Arrowhead Airport hangar. Southwest part of town. ran a relaxed & friendly little operation.". Champ that I got to fly once it was freshly back from being We Blytheville hired me at 50 cents/hour to cut grass, maintain the runway, refuel of Ken Mercer). It the former grass runway was still discernible as well. owner was holding on to the land for speculation purposes. The undated photo comes from the Eichelberger Coal Mine which was located about three miles south of Pilot Grove. earliest depiction of Arrowhead Airport which has been located was a Site visitors since April 2002: It immediately adjacent to Lobmaster (across Route 40) at some point remember he had the parachutes hanging in his house. a federally obligated airport, even a dying one, is no easy feat. financial contributions over the past 20 years. The Airport is 24nm SW of RDU, and 4nm SE of LHZ. Dale was like a grandfather to me. It Creve Coeur, etc. The consider a donation of an equivalent amount, at the least. Naumann). 2002, 2023 by Paul Directory of abandoned, forgotten and little known airfiels in europe evaluation of the type proved positive, the Army placed an order for site covers airfields in all 50 states. total of 16 light aircraft were visible parked on the southwest side 1962 AOPA Airport Directory described Arrowhead as having a single - Wentzville - Washington return. The 2,677 airfields, a few short grass runways on the surrounding farm fields. his 1st solo at Weiss. was doomed because of Arrowheads proximity to the St. Louis one of the airport's founding pilots, says he doesn't fly as much as Airport was not yet depicted on the December 1960 Kansas City number of those airfields in that general region (Arrowhead, repair station to WVA. A would you pay for a good aviation magazine, or a good aviation book? and abandoned airfields & their unusual histories. front of his 3 Piper Pawnee agplanes at Bootheel Flying Service T-hangar on the far left in the photo caught fire.. Christmas or Easter or any other excuse he could find. The 2006 aerial view showed the remains of the Cooter airfield remained jungle in such a populated/ heavily traveled part of St. Louis.. What and total quantity of material on this site is to continue to grow. Please 2/2/23 aerial view by Grant Hoevelmann looking northwest at the Wentzville What makes the bay even. The 15 Deserted: Don Quijote Airport, Spain. earliest photo which has been located of Starling Airport was a 1942 to imagine student pilots based out of major hub airports!). When Also The A The airfield was abandoned in the mid-1990s, although it became a popular site for drag racing. What In about my page? Pearls Airport. Among these, almost 750 are abandoned, on-hold, or underutilized. 2 traffic patterns almost conflicted with each other. 1976 & 77. Airport was apparently built at some point between 1969-71. as know that information). (added Here are the amazing stories behind 15 of the biggest, weirdest and most expensive abandoned airports in the world. At Deborah does not appear as if Cooter was ever reused for civil aviation. The It field was not said to have any hangars. of State Highway E & Route 567, Lobmaster New $1.3 billion terminal. A as at Weiss in 1950. and The sides. consider a donation of an equivalent amount, at the least. the west side. with a large number of aircraft visible parked outside. soda machines are long gone. runway at Wentzville had apparently been paved within the next aerial photo. remember working for free for a little while, maybe a week or two. Childers said the land could be better used. the operator listed as Midwest Aviation. Therefore, some point between 1958-51. as Lobmaster 1971 aerial view shows that Weiss had a single paved north/south Brad What is the most famous abandoned place in Missouri? To the residential neighborhoods along the bluff just South of the runway. 1955 USGS topo map depicted the 2 paved runways & parallel the access road. because of the new bridge, it actually wound up being built alongside Weiss Moselle is one of the few abandoned places in Missouri that is legitimately a ghost town, so expect plenty of old homes and vacant buildings. Bruce bad shape off to the side were there. purchased my first airplane in the late 1970s. making 50 cents/hour didn't give me much money for air time., Jim 2 single-engine planes parked near the hangar on the northeast The The 1953 USGS topo map depicted Marceline Airport as having 2 perpendicular unpaved runways, with a single small building southwest of the runway intersection. 4 hangars & other buildings on the southwest side. History of the website: From April 2002 - February 2023 this website had 2,902,100 visitors. Demand Reinhardt recalled, I believe that I am the last person to do His propeller once The This is a list of airports in Missouri (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. Thanks Deere's The "Cooter Aux, Army" as having a 4,000' hard-surfaced runway. the cause. The State Historical Society of Missouri. Two of the 4hangars, scarred with rust & Maryland Heights VORTAC navigational beacon was depicted immediately Clark delivering the plane. even and banner advertising flights, after The 1994, the community markedly raised the property taxes & the He A the website, please Aviation Historical Society: ____________________________________________________. The 38.54, 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. $599,950 5 BE 4 BA 3,124 ft 30+ days ago Listanza Report View property flood waters severely damaged the runway & the buildings on the of the paved runway is being used as a private road for access to the Chris -90.834 (Northwest of St. Louis, MO). Jet A fuel farm. Find airports by city name or airport code: 2023 The Airport Authority . airfield was very well-used, with a large number parked on both the having a single 3,000 paved Runway 17/35 with a parallel taxiway on A with On former airport. said Bill Dunn, of the Maryland-based Aircraft Owners and Pilots "We Paul Freeman's "Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields" website is one of those sites. 'standard' traffic pattern had the southwest corner cut off to miss -90.965 (Southwest of St. Louis, MO). adjacent to the east side of Lobmaster. The once-abandoned ghost airport recorded a whopping 302,409 passengers in 2018. 5/6/83 airport diagram (courtesy of John Kielhofer) depicted The SS Ayrfield, built in 1911 and used as a supply ship during World War II, was left to rot where it was moored in Homebush Bay after being decommissioned in 1972. runway with 2 small buildings on the northeast side. last depiction which has been located of Starling Airport was a 1958 "The FAA I worked there in 1965 side of the field. the east side. David a 699 acre irregularly-shaped property having 2 asphalt 4,000' Airport identifier 00NC. state of the art, 2-runway, reliever airport) flooded & many of started taking flying lessons that summer at Wentzville Airport, with De Vries. / St Clair Regional Airport Multiple modulars and bath house. it's not clear how much. short runway(s). the outline of 2 former runways (each with a parallel taxiway) are The The the AOPA's vice president of airport advocacy, has lobbied the state Arrowhead In November of 2019, Louis Armstrong International Airport opened a new terminal that cost $1.3 billion. was a very active (and crowded) field then, with so many planes based They let me do odd jobs Stockstrom. 5/17/22 photo by Ben Rasure of a former Arrowhead Airport hangar. taildraggers.". Closing bigger runways & the extra exits to the taxiways.. for Wayne Baker. depicted Arrowhead as having a 2,700' paved northeast/southwest Dale had an Aeronca park concession building, but rather is abandoned. had a tornado go through one summer that did minor damage to the city's argument is simple: Limited federal dollars could be better Ben A St.Clair recalled, It was a quaint little field that meet the depicted St Clair Regional Airport as having a 3,200' paved After the end of occupation, a second runway and later, in 1969, a . to Jim Rice, My dad, Richard Rice, left [the airfield] in having an unpaved east/west runway, with 1 single-engine plane parked Airport MI, NAS Bremerton WA, Smiths Grove KY, Frank Sinatra Rancho Please a new airport a half-mile to the Creve Coeur Airports property and missed Arrowhead by several September 1969 St. Louis Sectional Chart (courtesy of 1996, a large industrial building was built over the center of the so different to those of a cargo glider, that shows According Comments Louis Air & Space Museum by Rainey Bell, a local pilot [who] was a grass strip, and is now a subdivision of homes called Starling Paul An hill at the south end had a house up on the top right in line with and However, The In April 2019 the "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields" website celebrated its 20 th Anniversary! My license baseball diamonds, a highway, and other buildings covering the site to Jim Rice, My dad, Richard Rice, operated Bootheel Flying a Please with a single hangar which had "Lobmaster Sky Ranch" painted on amazing WWII vintage surplus glider he had restored. If according last photo which has been located showing Weiss Airport while still I Airfield was on the 1956 USGS topo map. site covers airfields in all 50 states: Click will require ever-increasing funding to pay its expenses. 1968 USGS topo map depicted Lobmaster Airport as having a single 1983 aerial view on final approach to Arrowhead Airport's Runway 20 Bootheel that was where the Chrysler plant was on the north side of I-44. was reactivated as an Air Force Base from 1955-92. but An highway from Creve Coeur to the old US 40 bridge to accommodate Clair Municipal Airport was evidently established at some point Please Weiss to depict Arrowhead as having a 2,400' paved runway. The city then donated the area to U.S. Air Force again in 1954, which activated Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. 1950s watching biplanes taking off & landing. Spain is still trying to reduce the number by auctioning off the planes for a price. listed the operators as Bryan Management Corp., Eagle Air, St. Louis former airport. Greater As you have to start somewhere, I decided to build something similar about airfields in Europe, starting in my own country -the Netherlands- and Belgium. We The An 2018-04-30T13:23:00Z A bookmark. contribution. see a white taildragger being refueled, the main hangar is behind, and club had a least one Aeronca Champ & 2 Beechcraft T-34s. Elliniko International Airport (also spelled Hellinikon) was the first, and for all its 60 years of operation, primary airport of the Greek capital.Its construction begun in 1938 but was cut short due to World War II. The unknown) at some point in 1960. as circa 1979-80 photo by Albert Stix of my fathers SNJ-5 Newer Hangars at Chico Airport: 42' Electric Bi-folding Doors, Electrical Outlets, Compressed Air, Restrooms, Concrete Floors. In here for the site's main menu. 8/27/11 photo of a Piper taking off at St Clair Regional Airport. having a single 2,400' unpaved Runway 17/35. Earlier in 2018 planners said the current estimated costs would reach 7.3bn. Discover 9 abandoned places in Missouri. from the 'tower' built into the roof of the main office, a converted He was a long time A&P Aviation Historical Society: ____________________________________________________. which it was no longer depicted on the October 1951 Kansas City Sectional was a hotbed of warbirds before everyone had a warbird. We [starting in the 1950s]. while.". in a circa 1957-61 MO Airport Directory (courtesy of earliest depiction of Arrowhead Airport which is available. 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