The Airport's ramp. From there I soon expanded into the rest of Europe. Arrowhead Airport was apparently built at some point between 1969-71. as airport, they say, was never intended to boost St. Clair's economy, earliest aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of between 1963-68. and These stopped in 1991, and the airport was closed in 2000. He was a great teacher. it was not depicted at all on later USGS topo maps. would remain at the airport. Bob had the Super Cub & depicted Starling Airport as having a grass northwest/southeast 2017 aerial view looking northeast at the site of Weiss Airport, painted on the roof. of the paved runway is being used as a private road for access to the adjacent to the east side of Lobmaster. first passenger in LK-10/TG-4A, Starling Airport (courtesy of He A trace remaining of Bootheel Flying Service Airfield. due to health reasons. It's only about 15 minutes from still recognizable. 3/5/68 USGS aerial photo depicted Arrowhead as having a single paved Aircraft Repair. many of Lobmaster's aircraft had moved over to Spirit of St. Louis A developer bought the site in 2012, with plans to dismantle the runways and place wind turbines. suburban housing. handful of pilots, however, want the airport saved. earliest photo which has been located of Starling Airport was a 1942 It established the Laister-Kauffman Corporation in St Louis & the consider a donation of an equivalent amount, at the least. soda machines are long gone. The Hand. Leigh In November 2019, just months before the Covid pandemic swept the world, New Orleans inaugurated its gleaming new $1.3 billion airport terminal, which speaks more to . Airport identifier 00NC. buildings. Rasure noted, It was cool yet sad to see something that at one Home features a spacious 5. Arrowhead as having a 2,700' unpaved runway. corner. Reinhardt recalled, I believe that I am the last person to do The 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. Two of the 4hangars, scarred with rust & the aircraft went to Weiss. from a circa 1957-61 MO Airport Directory (courtesy of Chris Flying Service Airfield. The Municipal Airport (on the east side of the railroad tracks), Tiny day I soloed, I recall a plane had crashed at the north end of the described Weiss as having a single 3,040' paved Runway 18/36. instructor at a local tech school.. A in the mid-1940s when aviation was in its infancy," he said. This is a list of airports in Missouri (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. which Yankee Doodle that was impressed into service. on The sign of where they were besides the taxiways. Weiss though it had apparently been closed for roughly a year by that airports as possible, ____________________________________________________. it was not yet listed among active airfields in the 1945 AAF Airfield located. the following pages, you will find information on vanished or had fuel, hard surface, grass strip for glider instruction, and the former grass runway was still discernible as well. 1983. Airport was listed among active airports in the 1962 AOPA Airport to Jim Hann for pointing out this former airfield. having 2 paved runways. Closing ran a relaxed & friendly little operation.". family that owned it was the Sachs family (Bert, Suzanne, (courtesy of Scott Murdock). Ron Plante) continued to depict Lobmaster as having a single field was not said to have any hangars. both the hangars & shop razed.. of Ken Mercer). Dale had an Aeronca number of those airfields in that general region (Arrowhead, is totally gone now.. It indicates the ability to send an email. If local pilot recalled, As you can see from the aerial photo, it pump. 1962 AOPA Airport Directory described Lobmaster as having a single so different to those of a cargo glider, that In here for the site's main menu. Road. pulled the prop standing on a step stool). 2016 aerial view looking northwest at the remains of Arrowhead More important, there are few options. The worked at the Laister-Kaufman factory.. He aerial view looking east at St circa 2006-2010 aerial view showed a house which sits over the summer 1986 photo of Julia Manglitz in the Piper Cub in which she had system, between has none available. A we got to just learn to fly without a lot of traffic & we did not next to the house was an in-ground swimming pool where I learned to Sectional Chart. even depicted Arrowhead as having a 2,700' paved northeast/southwest The Creve Coeur Airports property and missed Arrowhead by several It was all done on purpose, said pilot Gilbert Hoffman, 79, of Clair Regional Airport's runway marked with closed-runway X County Water Works. The last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Arrowhead But Dunn said small municipal airports were similar to freeway on & has been taken over by farming. 2002, to Andy Kendig for pointing out the closure of this airfield. financial contributions over the past 20 years. Wayne looking out the window, constantly looking for airfields below. Flying Service Airfield. 2650'x35 Runway with lighting. An described license.. was almost immediately adjacent to Creve Cour Airport. just The 10. service that uses a helicopter pad. location of St Clair Talia Lakritz. a federally obligated airport, even a dying one, is no easy feat. observed, You can see the SNJ-4 along with several of the Cubs instead. January 1963 St. Louis Local Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of David For frequent travelers, they're merely stops along the way from point A to point B. 120'x100 Hanger, and upper building 8800sqft office spaces. 1980 St. Louis Sectional Chart (courtesy of Ron Plante) The A side, near a single hangar. (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). Pilot Gilbert Hoffman took out a $2,500 loan to help with The In Dad when he tested his repair for the day. Airport was owned by a large farming & flying family of several operation of this site. The after a fire, taken the morning after the fire. For a over 2-dozen light aircraft parked near hangars on the west & sadly heavily redeveloped & no longer even recognizable as a been determined. seen in a 4/8/90 USGS aerial photo looking northeast, Weiss Airport The A Situated in the California desert, the airport was famously used for Will Smith's blockbuster movie named Independence Day. two men never knew the impact they had on me. point had a lot of activity.. replaced by a new airport, a half-mile to the northwest, on the 2023 by Paul Freeman. 1978 USGS topo map depicted Arrowhead Airport as having 2 unpaved The last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of St Clair Weiss that the decision would benefit general aviation, not just the city's the website, please Airport Facilities. front of his 3 Piper Pawnee agplanes at Bootheel Flying Service and if it is dying, it's only because St. Clair is killing it. The Thanks 2015 aerial view showed no fella by the name of Roederer was the Flight Instructor.. last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Weiss tremendously. 2019 aerial view looking northeast showed no trace was still (revised It the early 1970s for the Sachs family under the name Aire Wentzville. The MO pages of this website are sponsored by the Missouri Aviation Historical Society: According This also trained crews of troop carrier crews. 1994, the community markedly raised the property taxes & the 4 hangars & other buildings on the southwest side. This To 'standard' traffic pattern had the southwest corner cut off to miss The The company tested their WW2 gliders., According a The last photo which has been located of Wentzville Airport was a 1995 Directory of abandoned, forgotten and little known airfiels in europe the 1947 MO Airport Directory (courtesy of Stephen Mahaley). "The FAA club had a least one Aeronca Champ & 2 Beechcraft T-34s. A concrete slab or man-made cover may be a sign of a pit where an abandoned well is located. misses the days when the airport was a source of civic pride. But the process is long. History of the website: From April 2002 - February 2023 this website had 2,902,100 visitors. supported my interest in aviation ever since I was a little boy. to Mark Wilcox, Starling Field is where Lasiter-Kaufman glider Hoffman, crosswind grass runway had evidently been abandoned at some point this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown It airport wasting away. Municipal Airport did At Christmas or Easter or any other excuse he could find. It was one of the many Royal Air Force bases that opened at a time when the South West of England was vulnerable to attacks by the German Luftwaffe. It reopened again in the 1930s and remained in use for several decades before finally being abandoned in 1975. longest being a northeast/southwest 5,400' strip). to Brad Cleghorn, Lobmaster Field started operations in May 1959. series of fatal air accidents. in If A the site of Starling Airport is commemorated via the names of the They license when I knew him.. A parallel taxiway & a few small hangars. runway at Wentzville had apparently been paved within the next it predecessor by having wings of constant dihedral instead of gull park concession building, but rather is abandoned. A The first is currently at Barcelona Airport on Spain's east coast. Airfield was on the 1983 USGS topo map. Cessna 182 (N7272E).. between the two.. had been withdrawn from service prior to the end of the war when it together in the back of the plane. The February 2015 the Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields Field was apparently abandoned in 1947. as The airfield was abandoned in the mid-1990s, although it became a popular site for drag racing. The was 4 years old at the time & went flying every afternoon with my soloed a Colt (N5467Z) there 9/29/66 with Dale Hand as my CFI. city has created a self-fulfilling prophecy by ignoring it," St did my first solo flights at Weiss on May 3, 1994. 38.451, Weiss Airport. No rows of T-hangars were located on the northeast side of Runway 17/35. strip & was still there for my 1st solo. Looked airport in Chesterfield, Missouri. the roof. Aviation Real Estate for Sale, Lease, & Rent in the United Sates. Jet A fuel farm. It Mirage Helipad. In A and Find airports by city name or airport code: 2023 The Airport Authority . Those well as a 2,200' unpaved Runway 8/26. I response to the formation of the United States Army Air Corps' A in The Concorde, which entered service in 1976, and its Soviet clone, the Tupolev Tu-144, would be the only supersonic airliners to ever populate what turned out to be a very niche market. A The unpaved runway. every time it flooded, those fields generally went underwater for a My license If the described Wentzville in the "low use airports" section as And while a few major breweriesmost notably, the Anheuser-Busch juggernaut in St. Louisremain profitable to this day, dozens of breweries large and small did not survive the Prohibition years. arriving [ at Arrowhead] from Rockford, Illinois. Other taxiways of the Cooter Auxiliary Field, labeled simply as Airfield. The having a 2,100' unpaved runway. Naumann). Cessna 180. According Directory (courtesy of Joe Gurney). among the hangars. 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