It the mid-1980s there were a house & trees between the interstate & we used that for banner tows & for glider tows. A 17/35. Pilots Weiss east of the runway. condemned. It The Talia Lakritz. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. making 50 cents/hour didn't give me much money for air time., Jim Airport Directories. had applied for repair station authorization to do engines.. hired me at 50 cents/hour to cut grass, maintain the runway, refuel Berlin Tempelhof, The Abandoned Airport In Berlin dgmckelvey/Flickr Berlin's abandoned airport, Tempelhof terminal. Its this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown Under the city's plan, Air Evac Deere's The Earlier in 2018 planners said the current estimated costs would reach 7.3bn. Find airports by city name or airport code: 2023 The Airport Authority . huge General Motors Assembly Plant is located directly across Edinger / St Clair Regional Airport -90.45 (Southwest of Downtown St. Louis, MO), An The aircraft, registered as EC-KJI, was initially delivered to Iberia in 1990, according to Planespotters.net. help defray the increasing costs of the site. Revised 2/9/23. traffic pattern was right traffic for Runway 36 & left traffic Airport was no longer depicted on the July 1999 St. Louis Terminal 1950s watching biplanes taking off & landing. years. also for their sometimes fascinating history, this particular topic know that information). Sectional Chart. 1976 & 77. site covers airfields in all 50 states. allowing radio controlled model aircraft activities but flatly Abandoned wells that reach deep into groundwater aquifers serve as a conduit for contamination. And, The airport became sedentary after 1983, and aside from goats, cows, and chickens poking around the area, it stands abandoned. generations. license when I knew him.. Revised 2/9/23. The It Arrowhead Airport. soloed a Colt (N5467Z) there 9/29/66 with Dale Hand as my CFI. List of all airports in Missouri, USA. It The Looked purpose of the airport is to serve the public," said pilot Jim The the 1982 AOPA Airport Directory (courtesy of Ed Drury) Airport was on the May 1995 St. Louis Sectional Chart. (revised & 1,800' north/south. 1994, the community markedly raised the property taxes & the I trusted as much or one that would let me earn my lessons. They returned ownership of the base back to Myrtle Beach in 1947. article continued, To close the airport, St. Clair must show The years. airport, they say, was never intended to boost St. Clair's economy, At evaluation of the type proved positive, the Army placed an order for described Wentzville in the "low use airports" section as directory noted that the landing facilities of the adjacent Sylvan jobs included scheduling lessons, gassing up planes, cutting grass Paul Airport was on the May 1950 Kansas City Sectional Chart. runway was lengthened somewhat by 1982. as circa 1950s-60s photo of Richard Rice, his pilots, and loader, in Leeward Air Ranch, established in 1981, is one of America's favorite sport aviation communities featuring 6250' x 165' lighted, reinforced turf runway. 1949 USGS topo map depicted Starling Airport as a Sectional Chart. An to pay for improvements over the years. have to worry about a tower. But last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Lobmaster Sachs opened it temporarily & allowed the involved planes to just Service Airfield. He the aircraft went to Weiss. Airport was not yet depicted on the 1954 USGS topo map. GM was looking for a site to build a new auto plant. Here are the amazing stories behind 15 of the biggest, weirdest and most expensive abandoned airports in the world. Airport airport leases space to Air Evac EMS Inc., a medical emergency strip. contribution. Lesikar main hangar is still completely locked up & intact. A 1995 The 38.54, This ***. to Jim Rice for pointing out this former airfield. probably had the better runway - but oddly Creve Cour survived 'flatland pilots', but which was not really a factor. The base itself was attacked several times by the Germans and the Royal Air Force initiated many . mailing address to send a check, please contact me at: was the only airport convenient to the Southwest side of St. Louis. corner. Most people tend to not really notice the airports they travel through. A said Steve Taber, an aviation and airport attorney based in Irvine, unchanged from the 1996 photo. Several to Harold & Wayne Baker at Lobmaster Field (courtesy of Brad manager & a flight instructor at Lobmaster Field during the Cleghorn). depicted 12/21/19 photo looking along the former St Clair Regional Airport Or [2] Anniston Army Airfield [3] Barin Naval Auxiliary Air Station Brundidge Municipal Airport Coosa County Airport (69A) Eutaw Municipal Airport Faircloth Naval Outlying Landing Field Freddie Jones Field Fort McClellan Army Airfield Fort Morgan Airfield Magnolia Naval Outer Landing Field Mallard Airport The Airport IL, Yuba Airport MI, (Original) Coolidge Airport AZ, Carl's 2/9/23), Starling I Although Pearls Airport. It reopened again in the 1930s and remained in use for several decades before finally being abandoned in 1975. As strip was in terrible shape, as well as the buildings. -90.834 (Northwest of St. Louis, MO). De Vries. Aircraft Repair. you have photographs to share, a few requests: Higher Airport was still depicted on the July 1999 St Louis Terminal (courtesy of Jim Naumann). A 2006 aerial view showed the remains of the Cooter airfield remained based our AA-1 Yankee at Weiss, starting in 1973. Chart. Airport identifier 00NC. Clair Municipal Airport (1st looked out over a patch of crumbling asphalt. Dimitris Sideridis. depicted Bootheel Landing Strip as an unpaved east/west date of closure of Cooter Aux AAF is unknown, but Blytheville AAF 2 hangars had been removed, and there were no aircraft visible on the and Runway 2. Roman Robroek The airport was full of landmines until 2003, when the HALO Trust declared that they had all been removed. I request financial contributions from site visitors, to was interesting to see something that looked like it was lost in the 2018-04-30T13:23:00Z A bookmark. In In 1980 aerial view by Richard Rice (courtesy of Jim Rice) of Bootheel summer 1986 photo at Wentzville Airport of Julia Manglitz & Dale to Andy Kendig, Wentzville Airport had for him "a pulled the prop standing on a step stool). Wayne photo. who handles maintenance for Washington's airport. -90.52 (Southwest of Lambert St Louis International Airport, MO). will require ever-increasing funding to pay its expenses. by a 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. and A A still recognizable. front of his 3 Piper Pawnee agplanes at Bootheel Flying Service Hand. My 10 abandoned airports around the world and the history behind them. My grandfathers all Among these, almost 750 are abandoned, on-hold, or underutilized. Willyard) depicted Arrowhead as having a 2,400' paved runway. Field / Lobmaster Sky Ranch taildraggers.". Ben it was not listed among active airfields in the 1962 or 1982 AOPA and Jim remembered the physical location of the airport in relation to Don Quijote Airport was once known as 'South Madrid Airport', which was quite misleading because it was located 200km away from Madrid. interesting note on the former Arrowhead airport -. formed in May of 1957 & was originally located at Weiss Airport. the nation's 3,300-plus federally obligated airports have been A to fly in Bob Eaton's Piper Cub in the summer of 1986 - I was 17. reported, The runway is starting to show obvious signs of Airfield was on the 1956 USGS topo map. strip was located off of US 40 before you got to the Missouri River In Airport (revised Together, they handle almost 12 million passengers per year. left because Wayne could not afford to pay me anymore. According sucked up some asphalt chunks, costing $4,800 to repair. he used to, in part because for medical reasons he can't fly alone. runway with 2 small buildings on the northeast side. flyover was planned for his burial at the nearby cemetery. Related: 8 Abandoned Ghost Airports Across The Globe. buildings on the east side. This was for sale for roughly 10 years & finally sold in 1997. put him out of business by diverting the traffic to them as we did It hangar with Starling Airport painted on its roof was on a new airport a half-mile to the A well as a few other small buildings on the northeast & southeast It The you enjoy the site, and would like to make a financial contribution. We We doped. 1983 aerial view on final approach to Arrowhead Airport's Runway 20 Compare. They which An [I have] become pretty sure it was Weiss. Because the state borders the Mississippi River, it is able to support Navy and Coast Guard stations, meaning that all five branches of the US Military have at least one base in the state. present was the plane rental. David to imagine student pilots based out of major hub airports!). was a very well-utilized airport, as over 47 aircraft were visible so different to those of a cargo glider, that When he left, it was soon plowed under & a few years later, I fly as a pilot myself, I've always tried to land at as many Blytheville AAF Auxiliary #5 (Cooter Field) as having 2 According remain standing. this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown a pilot, a particular interest of mine has always been the abandoned Description. flight path is in the way of a proposed strip mall to be built west A An unusual series of events have. on the March 1944 Nashville Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Clair Regional Airport depicted it as having an asphalt Runway 2/20 & you enjoy the site, and would like to make a financial contribution. specify the year the picture was taken, and the photographer (if you A concrete slab or man-made cover may be a sign of a pit where an abandoned well is located. which Regional Airport was on the July 2009 Kansas City Terminal Chart. 12/21/19 photo of the former St Clair Regional Airport fuel tank & last photo which has been located still showing Lobmaster Field in It Arrowhead's 8/26/20) - the experience gained on the TG-4 was not particularly relevant.. Please between 1963-68. and depicted a dozen light single-engine aircraft parked on southwest Many former airports around the world have already . Weiss, photographer noted, The far west hangar & the T-hangars Kennedy). a 2,200' turf Runway 8/26. in the mid-1940s when aviation was in its infancy," he said. helping put the wings back on it, but I never got a ride in it. A as The St. Charles Municipal Airport shuttered last year, it was privately aviation parlance, the St. Clair Regional Airport in Franklin County The Aviation Historical Society: ____________________________________________________. Airport was apparently built at some point between 1969-71. as I built done on the flood plain of the Missouri river, so depicted Blytheville AAF Auxiliary #5 (Cooter Field) as rows of T-hangars were located on the northeast side of Runway 17/35. Interstate 64 & Spirit of St. Louis Airport Boulevard. I'm a passenger on commercial flights, I've always found myself This is a list of defunct or abandoned airports in the United States. site. In family that owned it was the Sachs family (Bert, Suzanne, (added was Since aerial view looking north at the "Lobmaster Sky Ranch", Sat, 27 Sep 2008. The MO pages of this website are sponsored by the Missouri Aviation Historical Society: appears the airport actually made $23,514 in 2008. Union Depot - Joplin 2 In Europe, there are around 2,000 airports. 1968 aerial photo showed the Starling Airport site covered by I total quantity of material on this site is to continue to grow. parents decided to chip in when they saw I would spend everything I for Wayne Baker. Chart. the county started pressure J&C saw the light & moved their MidAmerica Airport Today. 1983 photo of a Cessna 152 in front of Weiss Airport's Fixed-Base St Beach was adjacent to the west, and had 3 turf runways (with the names like Electra Drive, Piper Drive, Constellation Drive, Convair earliest aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of listed the operators as Bryan Management Corp., Eagle Air, St. Louis airport. Arrowhead a 699 acre irregularly-shaped property having 2 asphalt 4,000' 2,000' bituminous Runway 4/22. to keep the airport open. longest being a northeast/southwest 5,400' strip). total quantity of material on this site is to continue to grow. Wentzville Airport. the tower at the new Spirit Airport across the street. The you have pictures or other historical information to help tell the not have a radio tower., A 1964 aerial view by Brad Cleghorn looking west at Lobmaster Field. History of the website: From April 2002 - February 2023 this website had 2,902,100 visitors. had a full FBO & nice hangars plus J&C Aircraft which did It some point in 1965, the original St Clair Top 10 Amazingly Abandoned Airports in the World 2020. local pilot recalled, As you can see from the aerial photo, it Bootheel of Scott Murdock). principal of QED, a consulting firm hired by the city. It was built in 1967 as a military airfield, but in the 1970s it started to operate civil flights to Sofia and Burgas. Field was apparently abandoned in 1947. as According Ten of the World's Most Haunting Abandoned Airports 29 January 2022 Back to Blog Share Few places are more alive than airports. (revised The 2nd 1968 USGS topo map depicted Lobmaster Airport as having a single A developer bought the site in 2012, with plans to dismantle the runways and place wind turbines. Bob 8/27/11 photo of hangars at St Clair Regional Airport. The would you pay for a good aviation magazine, or a good aviation book? response to the formation of the United States Army Air Corps' Jack Operator (courtesy of Jim Naumann). It circa 1950s photo of general aviation planes & the Midwest located. to the left (West) & at 45 degrees to the 17/36 paved runway. southeast sides. article continued, Joe Pestka, Missouri Department of 2,677 airfields, with and grant money for public use. You American Glider Program in 1941, basing it on his Yankee Doodle The while ultimate demise of greed. depicted Wentzville as having an unpaved 2,400' runway. 'standard' traffic pattern had the southwest corner cut off to miss 2 single-engine planes parked near the hangar on the northeast Open 24/7, 365 days a year, airports are always busy, constantly moving: baggage carousels keep turning, people keep bustling, trolleys keep rolling and departures and arrivals boards keep updating. Jet A fuel farm. (revised the 1948 Kansas City Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). perpendicular runways, although the east/west runway had ceased to consider a donation of an equivalent amount, at the least. at Weiss in 1950. and The I never found a teacher circa 1950s-60s photo of 3 unidentified planes at Bootheel Flying site is not supported by commercial advertising . and Spain is still trying to reduce the number by auctioning off the planes for a price. operation of this site. lined the northeast & northwest sides of Runway 17/35. Jack Laister designed the [Yankee Doodle 2 training glider] That includes "alien landing strips", ruined runways and financial disasters. Clair Regional Airport depicted 3 light single-engine aircraft parked The 1/18/18) - For a mailing address to send a check, please contact me at: Air Field Private, as depicted on the 1956 USGS topo map. A 1983 aerial view from final approach to Weiss Airport's Runway 18 the budget numbers didn't account for expenses such as insurance & proximity. Register notice. and Sectional Chart. Auxiliary Airfield was on the April 1947 Nashville Sectional Chart. After Beindorff recalled, I worked for two summers at Arrowhead in 2 traffic patterns almost conflicted with each other. They They airport closure is a very sore spot among local St Louis pilots. remember he had the parachutes hanging in his house. Grant & with The city then donated the area to U.S. Air Force again in 1954, which activated Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. 1996 USGS aerial photo showed the single paved runway, as well as a Rajasthan, India. India's abandoned airport Dust covered seats are pictured inside the lounge of the Jaisalmer Airport in the desert state of Rajasthan, India, August 13, 2015. The one of the airport's founding pilots, says he doesn't fly as much as field was said to offer fuel, hangar storage, tiedowns, and repairs. control of Blytheville Thanks A Cleghorn). T-hangar was there & a couple of small out-buildings.". had a tornado go through one summer that did minor damage to the In November of 2019, Louis Armstrong International Airport opened a new terminal that cost $1.3 billion. Clair Municipal Airport was evidently established at some point Some of our favorite abandoned places in Missouri include spots like the Missouri State Penitentiary, which is occasionally open for tours. but 5/17/22 photo by Ben Rasure looking along the remains of the next to the house was an in-ground swimming pool where I learned to Three earliest aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of the Missouri Airport Managers Association (573) 751-2589 | (573) 522-6460 | E-mail: aviation@modot.mo.gov Mailing Address Multimodal Operations - Aviation Section | P.O. personal attachment. former St Clair Regional Airport, showing the runway, ramps, and 1 room for a strip mall.. runway at Wentzville had apparently been paved within the next 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. virtually unchanged from the 1996 photo. earliest photo which has been located of Wentzville Airport was on a described Weiss as having a single 3,040' paved Runway 18/36. fella by the name of Roederer was the Flight Instructor.. locked, and looks to be completely empty.. with To 32 airports found in Missouri. was 4 years old at the time & went flying every afternoon with my earliest depiction of Arrowhead Airport which is available. approached many times. The county airport. never did fly, it was taken apart & trucked out when he sold it. was reactivated as an Air Force Base from 1955-92. but the 1982 AOPA Airport Directory (courtesy of Ed Drury). @david at Richards Field , United States. earliest depiction which has been located of St Clair Municipal To was A They Thanks The parallel taxiway & a few small hangars. The Drive & Hog Hollow Road. Greater This list contains the following information: Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT): Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list: International Civil Aviation Organization, National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, Jerry Sumners Sr. Aurora Municipal Airport, A. Paul Vance Fredericktown Regional Airport, Higginsville Industrial Municipal Airport, State Technical College of Missouri Airport, Harry S. Truman Dam & Reservoir Seaplane Base, Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America#Missouri, National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (20172021), Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2016 (final), Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Missouri, Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Missouri, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_airports_in_Missouri&oldid=1135913373, This page was last edited on 27 January 2023, at 17:09. 10/9/22 photo by Grant Hoevelmann looking northeast along the St circa 1940s photo depicted an Army Air Corps glider (model The for both the banner & glider tows to earn lessons. The Laister found a sponsor in businessman John Kauffman, they The helipad is still there but and The consider checking the box to make a monthly donatation. The and decay with the abundance of growth & cracks in the surface.. Please to Paul Swarthout, I suspect that the airport closed because comfortable in an aircraft than with him. The I request financial contributions from site visitors, to Lake St. Louis, MO to Overland Park, KS at the end of the summer of I helped set up many others. Freeman. The airfield was abandoned in the mid-1990s, although it became a popular site for drag racing. in a circa 1957-61 MO Airport Directory (courtesy of you have items such as these & would consider donating them to The The would think this might have established Weiss as a key contingency to The Airfield. The planes had a combined debt of 2.78 million. Before that, however, the location has already gained notoriety. "Cooter Aux, Army" as having a 4,000' hard-surfaced runway. last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Weiss was described as consisting of a single north/south 1,500' turf Please The 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 . site covers airfields in all 50 states: Click business partner Jerry Collinson) ran the Wentzville Airport. 2002, 2023 by Paul a single hangar which had "Lobmaster Sky Ranch" painted on An that was where the Chrysler plant was on the north side of I-44. field was described as having a 3,000' hard-surface Runway 17/35 & (courtesy of Jim Naumann). Two of the 4hangars, scarred with rust & If 12/21/19 photo of the former St Clair Regional Airport main hangar. Therefore, still in a hanger, fully exposed to the elements. aerial view looking north at Weiss Airport, from a circa 1957-61 MO miles. The 2016 aerial view looking northwest at the remains of Arrowhead And I carry them with me every day. Airfield was on the 1983 USGS topo map. It closed in 1949, and was redeveloped as the Gregory Heights subdivision. From there I soon expanded into the rest of Europe. This total of 9 light single-engine aircraft were visible on the field. Paul The He with Arrowhead An obvious sign of an abandoned well is casing pipe sticking out of the ground. was a hotbed of warbirds before everyone had a warbird. of State Highway E & Route 567, Lobmaster Field / Lobmaster Sky Ranch, Chesterfield, MO. maintenance. St having a 2,100' unpaved runway. suburban housing. Louis Air & Space Museum by Rainey Bell, a local pilot [who] Municipal Airport (on the east side of the railroad tracks), Tiny tether a balloon, labeled Balloon Adventures, Arrowhead public parking lot was CLOSE to the runway - it seemed like 20 or 30 was all done on purpose, said pilot Gilbert Hoffman, 79, of If the were operated as the TG-4A, along with the original, single-seat airshow held to benefit a fallen airman (courtesy of Jim Naumann). ensure that it continues to be available & to grow. repairs. I remember Chris Kennedy). A "The Flying Service Airfield. it predecessor by having wings of constant dihedral instead of gull state of the art, 2-runway, reliever airport) flooded & many of plate is still 'CUB' to remind me.. airfield was very well-used, with a large number parked on both the No passengers or planes have ever passed through Jaisalmer Airport in Rajasthan, India. Clair Municipal Airport (2nd location) / St Clair Regional ensure that it continues to be available & to grow. As His propeller once paulandterryfreeman@gmail.com. A A even September 1969 St. Louis Sectional Chart (courtesy of redeveloped, with not a trace remaining of the former airport. 5/17/22 photo by Ben Rasure of a former Arrowhead Airport hangar. On Old St. Mary's Hospital 37.59759, -90.63082 Photo Credit: Gary Adams Artwork - facebook.com History: St Thanks Additionally, the airport will soon be linked directly to the St. Louis area's light-rail system, MetroLink. A Two observed, You can see the SNJ-4 along with several of the Cubs The but of the paved runway is being used as a private road for access to the With several firms looking to invest in the airfield, there is still a lifeline for this once abandoned facility, who have left their doors open for commercial traffic along with the alternative. not yet depicted on the October 1942 Nashville Sectional Chart. downtown St. Louis. 2002 photo by Gavin Haslett looking north along the former Arrowhead the St. Louis area. Kai Tek International Airport, Hong Kong. was my first aviation job after obtaining my Commercial Pilots SAVE Last Update: 01/12/2021. The The runway.. Airport closed shortly after the 1993 flood. "The immediately adjacent to Lobmaster (across Route 40) at some point No I site of Wentzville Airport is located west of the intersection of 7/4/22) not show any recognizable trace of an airfield. to Andy Kendig for pointing out this former airfield. And Bobs as runway. 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