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Happy Birthday San Antonio International Airport

07/23/12

In 2013, San Antonio International Airport will officially celebrate 60 years as an airport, but this month marks the 70th anniversary of the airport’s role as an airfield. In 1941, the city of San Antonio bought 1,200 acres of land for the purposes of building an airport. But World War II came along and →

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Museum Monday: Oregon’s Tillamook Air Museum

09/20/10

There are more than 700 air and space-related museums in this country. Each Monday, we highlight one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. This week: The Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon. The museum has about three dozen aircraft in its collection, but I’ve chosen to highlight it this week because of history of →

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