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Robert Royes
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Flushing Airport, Vanished aviation history

September 2, 2023 · in Uncategorized · · 9 · 560

Flushing airport, located in the borough of Queens NY. was a small private airport, open from1929 to1984. Its ultimate end was caused by several factors, including its proximity to LaGuardia Airport and a local highway, where at least one crash on said road occurred. Also, commercial development around the airport caused the flooding of the airport, the land was part of a wetland area that led to the Long Island Sound which was affected by the tide.

When I was young, we lived very close to the airport, at that time a skywriting company flying SNJs operated from there, we used to hang out with our bikes a road that was at the end of the runway watching them take off. During the 1964/65 N Y World's Fair two Good Year blimps operated out of the airport selling rides overlooking the Fair and N YC

The first twelve shots are from 1968, pic 15 is as it looks now, for a while it was abandoned, and you could not access it buy car. Eventually they tore down what was left of the hangers and rebuilt the road for access to a residential area.

Pic 17 is the current scheme for the Sky Typers,

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9 responses

  1. Thanks for sharing these wonderful pics, Robert! Great memories for sure! Pity that this small airport was abandoned.

  2. Some wonderful historical part, Robert @roofrat
    Thanks for sharing. You definitely had a wonderful childhood hanging around the airfield.

  3. Interesting pic's Robert, what of Edo seaplane port, gone too ?

  4. Thanks for sharing, Robert. I love stuff like this.

  5. So many small airports with real character are gone now. The small grass strip where I learned to fly in the late 70’s/early 80’s is now a Super Walmart. Thanks for sharing this Robert!

  6. Great set of pics Robert!
    Nice to see.

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