Airport
Chicago's main airport is usually cited as the busiest airport in the world, with around 2,300 take-offs and landings a day.
Barstow Daggett Airport is located on a major aircraft travel corridor and is an important weather station and communication relay site. Most commercial aircraft flying in to Los Angeles begin to line up over Daggett, after homing in on the Daggett VOR antenna, located twelve miles away. From here...
Denver's much maligned $5 billion airport, opened in 1995. It was one of the largest civil works projects in American history. It covers 53 square miles, has the tallest airport tower in the country (327 feet), has over 750 closed circuit TV cameras, and employs around 20,000 people.
This small airport is used for flight testing related to the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), which are small, remotely operated aircraft used primarily for intelligence gathering (though also for weapons delivery). Facilities consist of small hangar structures, support buildings,...
A 1,500-acre military and civilian air field used by the Air Force, NASA, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grummann, and UPS. Once a full Air Force Base, the field has been mostly turned over to the city of Houston, which is hoping to attract more commercial uses for the field.
Until 1965, this massive, remote airport in eastern Washington was Larson Air Force Base, primarily a bomber training base for B-52 crews. It is now run by the County, and houses an interesting mix of functions around the 13,500-foot runway, one of the largest in the country: 747s can often be seen...
Unusual desert airport, with some aircraft maintenance facilities, and large airliners in storage. Originally called "Storage Depot #41," Kingman was a major storage airport for airplanes returning from WWII.
This remote former World War II desert airfield has developed some very interesting and unusual features. It is a center for civilian aviation R&D, a major aircraft storage and scrap yard (possibly the largest nonmilitary one in the country), a busy film site, and is the home of the National...
Paine Field is the Snohomish County Airport, and is surrounded by major aviation companies' production and test operations, especially those of Boeing and Pratt...
In addition to a two-car garage, each home in this planned community has an airplane hangar, connected to the runway of a small airport. While many of the residents are retirees with recreational pilots licenses, some of the residents do commute to work in their airplanes. This is the only such "...
This was one of the largest SAC bomber bases in the country, known as Walker Air Force Base until 1967 when it was shut down. It is now a civilian airport known as the Roswell Industrial Air Center. During WWII it was called Roswell Army Airfield, and in 1947 it became famous for its involvement in...
This is an interesting airport, emerging from the remains of George Air Force Base, which was closed down in 1992. Much of the former base is abandoned and in a state of slow decay, but as many of the buildings were constructed during the 1970's and early 1980's, they are still in good condition....
Williams Field was a WW2 training base that continued to be a busy Air Force pilot training base until 1993, when it was closed. It has transitioned into a civil aviation airport, one of a dozen around Phoenix, and an aviation research and technical center, with modification and maintenance...