LeoSV

Great website. Check it out, your neighborhood may be sitting on an old airfield..

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm

EvilGN

thats a pretty neat site...several old fields around where I live now and where I lived in Jax.

Cubdriver

To have a website on that subject is great idea. Reminds me of the 16 Right Movie last year. I once lived almost exactly over the former grounds of an abandoned airfield at Carrollton Georgia known as "Carrollton Municipal'. It has been turned into a city park, elementary school, and a bunch of playing fields; it recently got an expensive new recreational facility. It was a good reuse of the land and not just more suburbia. In the meantime, Carollton got a new GA airport north of town about ten miles. The old field was orginally created by Southwire Co., and the field is located not far from their present day factory. It's fun to visit such places and imagine the people and events they supported long before our time. It shows you how the nature of society at the community level changes over time. And as the One Six movie says, small airports are part of our collective history and need to be preserved more than they are, lest we have a suburbia where you have to drive 150 miles to fly your Piper Cub on Sunday.

trackpilot

Very cool. I saw that site a few months ago.

kansas

Slick website, thanks for passing it along.

Bug Smasher

I bet we have some friends in common or know each other - how long ago did you live in Carrollton?

Jeremy

Timmay

AOPA ran a short article about that website a couple years ago. It's a very informative site and I've spent hours on it before. The stories about Stapleton and Meigs on there is are favorite, it's amazing and sad what can happen to places like that!