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Greater Pittsburgh Airport
Findlay Township, PA
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| By the 1940′s, the United States was becoming involved in World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt began Works Progress Administration (WPA) and saw that the Pittsburgh area needed an airport to defend the industrial wealth of the region and to provide a military training base. The airport was designed by local architect, Joseph W. Hoover and opened on May 31, 1952. The terminal was designed in the International Style and constructed in ‘stepped levels’ with exposed steel, concrete and glass. One of the most memorable features of the lobby was a large compass laid in the floor with green and yellow-orange terrazzo. The airport closed on October 1, 1992 as the new Midfield Terminal was opened nearby. Airport housed operational offices until it was demolished in 1999. |
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$11.99 |
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Pittsburgh Midfield Terminal
Findlay Township, PA
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| The Pittsburgh Midfield Terminal opened on October 1, 1992. All operations were transferred here from the original Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. |
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$9.99 |
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$13.99 |
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Bettis Airfield Terminal
McKeesport, PA
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| Bettis Field was an airstrip in Pittsburgh which opened in 1924 and was named for U.S. Army Air Corps Lieutenant, Cyrus Bettis. Curtiss-Wright sold the field to Gus Becker who operated the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics and trained mechanics during World War II. The property was sold and redeveloped to Westinghouse in 1949 and became the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. |
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Miami International Airport
Miami, FL
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| Miami International Airport is the primary airport serving the south Florida area and is the gateway between the United States and Latin America. The airport first opened in 1928 as Pan American Field and was the operating base of Pan American Airways. |
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$11.99 |
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San Francisco
International Airport
San Francisco, CA
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| The San Francisco International Airport opened on May 7, 1927 and was originally named Mills Field Municipal Airport. It is the major hub of both United Airlines and Virgin America. The airport is a major gateway from the United States to Europe, Asia and Australia. |
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$12.99 |
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$16.99 |
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John F. Kennedy International Airport
Queens, New York City, NY
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| JFK International Airport is located in Queens in southeast New York City. It is the busiest international air gateway to the United States. It is the principal hub for Jet Blue Airways and a major hub for American Airlines and Delta Airlines. JFK Airport was originally known as Idlewild Airport. The first commercial flight occurred on July 1, 1948 and a ceremony was attended by President Harry Truman. The airport was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 24, 1963, one month after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. |
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St. Louis Lambert
International Airport
St. Louis, MO
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| Lambert St. Louis International Airport is the largest airport in the state of Missouri. Trans World Airlines (TWA) established a hub here until it was bought by American Airlines. The airport was originally a balloon launching site named Kinloch Field and frequented by the Wright Brothers. President Theodore Roosevelt who flew in one of their aircraft became the first U.S. President to experience flying. The airport was also the location of the first experimental parachute jump. Charles Lindbergh’s first pilot job was flying airmail for Robertson Airlines from here and he embarked on his historic trans-Atlantic flight from here on his way to New York’s Roosevelt Field. |
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Charles Lindbergh’s
"Spirit of St. Louis"
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| The Spirit of St. Louis was a custom-built, single engine, single seat monoplane flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20-21, 1927 on the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Airfield in New York and landed at Le Bourget Aerodrome in Paris, France, thus receiving the $25,000 Orteig Prize. The Ryan NYP N-X-211 was presented by Lindbergh to the Smithsonian Institution where it hangs in the National Air and Space Museum. |
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