Vintage airport photos

[ethereal_reality]

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.




Los Angeles International 1947




Los Angeles International 1947

[ethereal_reality]

The beginnings of Meigs Field in Chicago 1938.






below: Chicago Municipal Airport (Midway)

[Maunder]

THANKS! Love these types of shots!

[FREKI]

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


All rights goes to Fynsk Natur

[zaphod]

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

[DJM19]

A few LAX shots

[Boris2k7]

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


Courtesy of the Calgary Airport Authority



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


Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


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

Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


Courtesy of the Calgary Airport Authority


Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum Collections


Courtesy of the Calgary Airport Authority


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

[ethereal_reality]

^^^ very cool.

[eduardo88]

Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany

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

[ethereal_reality]

^^^Great fotos eduardo88.



Tempelhof is one of my favorites.



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[eduardo88]

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

[Buckeye Native 001]

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Source

Terminal 1 (torn down in the early 1990s)








Sky Harbor today (Terminal 3, built in 1979, in the foreground; New control tower completed in 2006):

Source

[lawsond]

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

[ethereal_reality]

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



Amsterdam

[Cleveland Brown]

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 )



Image from Wayne State virtual Motor City Collection

[jodelli]

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



Selfridge Field, Mt Clemens


Wayne County Airport air show


Wayne State University, Reuther Library