Vintage airport photos
 

Post photographs of your city's airport(s)
from the earlier days of aviation.

I'm not from Los Angeles (I used to live there)
but I have two great photographs of LAX from 1947.


http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2...947hugedb5.jpg

Los Angeles International 1947


http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7...7huge2aye5.jpg

Los Angeles International 1947

The beginnings of Meigs Field in Chicago 1938.

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3...pfoto3ata8.jpg




below: Chicago Municipal Airport (Midway)

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2...waychgocd5.jpg







http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/6559/mdw602md6.jpg






http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/2...chicagokm6.jpg

THANKS! Love these types of shots!

I couldn't find any good old pictures of Copenhagen Airport ( CPH ) but I did find a crummy one from when it was opened in 1925

http://www.fynsk-natur.dk/images1/kastrup.jpg
All rights goes to Fynsk Natur

That's so cool how back then the planes just landed on grass?

A few LAX shots

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics24/00031615.jpg

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics29/00034021.jpg

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics24/00031635.jpg

Calgary's First Airfield (Bowness -- 1914) (pics ca. ?)

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2070/getfileim3.jpg
Courtesy of the Calgary Airport Authority



Renfrew Airport, Calgary (pics ca. 1920's-1940's)

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/6658/na369132ry6.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/7254/na327714mm9.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/60/na327737eq2.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5506/na327754yn0.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections



Calgary Municipal Airport/McCall Field (pics ca. 1940-1977)

Named after WWI RCAF Ace Fred McCall - M.C. Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/4975/na351126ja6.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2189/getfileiv7.jpg
Courtesy of the Calgary Airport Authority

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/9...5093486hk9.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/3...5093671do6.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/9...006855aej1.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4...008046aid6.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4050/na447656rb7.jpg
Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4121/getfilefs7.jpg
Courtesy of the Calgary Airport Authority


The airport underwent significant redevelopment and expansion in the late 70's and was renamed Calgary International Airport.

^^^ very cool. :)

Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany

Described by British architect Sir Norman Foster as "the mother of all airports"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...of_airport.jpg

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/5...hof1945ju2.jpg

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-imag...tempelhof3.jpg

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/ww...hof%201936.jpg

^^^Great fotos eduardo88.



Tempelhof is one of my favorites.


http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1...ofmodelbg3.jpg
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Thanks, yeah Tempelhof is definitely my favorite airport ever built. Its so amazing how massive it really is and I love how airplanes basically go right into the terminal. Its a shame the concourse has had such an ugly renovation in the 60's or so with the addition of a second floor of office space for the airlines. It's also a shame its going to be closed down soon :(

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Source

Terminal 1 (torn down in the early 1990s)
http://www.leifswanson.com/history/7002SkyHarbor70s.jpg

http://www.leifswanson.com/history/7003SkyHarbor2.jpg

http://www.leifswanson.com/history/7004SkyHarbor3.jpg

http://www.leifswanson.com/history/7...orInterior.jpg

Sky Harbor today (Terminal 3, built in 1979, in the foreground; New control tower completed in 2006):
http://www.visitingdc.com/images/pho...rt-address.jpg
Source

early 747 flight into malton toronto international...i would guess 1969?


http://bp2.blogger.com/_NtgXlrcvXZA/...A+-+c+1970.jpg

Schiphol....late 1940s...or early 1950.

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/3...pholp8agj9.png

Amsterdam

Detroit Metro Airport - with the soon to be defunct and demolished Smith Terminal and the soon to return Delta 747 (when NWA's get repainted ;) )

http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...y=1;view=image

Image from Wayne State virtual Motor City Collection

Ford Airport, Dearborn , MI.
Home of the TriMotor.

http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...y=1;view=image

Selfridge Field, Mt Clemens
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...y=1;view=image

Wayne County Airport air show

http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...y=1;view=image
Wayne State University, Reuther Library