Abandoned_&_Little-Known_Airfields

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields

Airport database website

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields is a fan run website detailing information and first hand memories about airports in the United States which are no longer in operation, or are rarely used.

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MacGuire Ranch Airfield, El Paso, Texas, one of the airports in the database

The website was started by Paul Freeman in 1999 as he had developed an interest on the subject. In 2015, there were over 2,000 airports chronicled on the site and it had been viewed over 1.7 million times.[1] In the US, airports close at about a rate of one per week.[2][3]

References

Notes

  1. [1]
    Pimentel, Dan (April 2013). "A Labor of Love: How One Website is Keeping the History of Yesterday's Airfields Alive". Airplanista. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    Fontaine, Tom (28 June 2010). "Small Public Airports Slowly Fading in Western Pennsylvania". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  3. [3]
    Schiff, Barry (9 March 2015). "No place to land". Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Retrieved 6 June 2015.

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