Re: Old Airport Buildings

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Yes, it's used by AirNet as I recall?
I should be there within a week or two..I'll do my best to check it out.

Walter
DCA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerard M Foley" <gfoley@columbus.rr.com>
To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>


> > >
> The terminal building at Port Columbus, CMH, from which I took my first
> flight in a TWA DC2 in 1938m, is still standing along 5th Avenue, close to
> the
> railroad tracks which carried the Pennsylvania Railroad train "Spirit of
> St.Louis", on part of the first transcontinental air-rail journey.   It
has
> a
> little tower on top of it.  It has obviously been used as some kind of an
> office building in recent years.  It looked vacant the last time I passed
> it.  I have not been in it since it ceased being used as an air terminal,
so
> I do not know how much of the (probably Art Deco) interior as a terminal
> survives.
>
> The service used a train from New York and continued on plane, Ford or
> Fokker tri-motor, to Kansas.
>
> Gerry K8EF
>
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