Just looking through Wikipedia and found some cool information about the Denver airports: =20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapleton_International_Airport =20 Stapleton International Airport was an airport located in Denver, Colorado. Stapleton was opened on October 17, 1929 as Denver Municipal Airport, which was later renamed to Stapleton Airfield after expansion in 1944. The renaming was in honor of Benjamin Stapleton, the city's mayor most of the time from 1923 to 1947, and the major force behind the project when it began in 1928. =20 No major crashes occurred there, however on November 1, 1955, United Airlines Flight 629 was bombed on the way to Portland, Oregon from Stapleton, killing everyone on board. A man named John Graham was found to have planted dynamite on the plane. He was executed 2 years after Flight 629 exploded. =20 Decomissioning On February 27, 1995, the last commercial flight left Stapleton, which was replaced by the new Denver International Airport. It was closed later that evening, and a massive caravan of all airport vehicles (everything from baggage carts to rental cars) headed for DIA, which opened the following morning. White "X"es were placed across all runways to keep airplanes from landing. DIA dropped DVX and KDVX as its temporary airport codes, adopting Stapleton's DEN and KDEN. Visitors to or from Denver at that time had the unusual experience of arriving at a different airport than they left the same city from. =20 Major reasons for decomissioning Stapleton included: =20 inadequate separation between runways, leading to extremely long waits in bad weather=20 a lawsuit over noise, brought by residents of nearby Park Hill community legal threats by Adams County to block runway extension into Rocky Mountain Arsenal lands.=20 [edit] Redevelopment The former airport site is now being redeveloped in one of the largest urban infill development projects in the United States. The new community is zoned for mixed-use. =20 =20 Clay Wardlow | Technical Publications | ADIC <http://www.adic.com/> | Redmond, WA | 425-897-7448 =20