This Week in Odessa History

 

Last updated 11/15/2012 at 1:46pm



Several sites were considered for Odessa’s airport before the present location was chosen in the 1950s.

Small airplanes occasionally landed in Odessa ever since the days of World War I. The field west of Odessa Cemetery was one of the landing spots. At other times., planes came down on a flat area beyond the hill south of town, in the vicinity of the present Odessa Industrial Park.

None of these sites was developed. The light, single-engine planes touched down on bare earth.

Plans for an airfield were being considered in November 1930, and The Record reported these developments in its issue of...



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