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Hilliard Gates Sports Center is a multi-purpose arena located in the northeast corner of the Purdue University Fort Wayne campus, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It opened in 1981 and contains 68,106 square feet (6,327.3 m 2 ) of space.
The airport was built at a cost of $10 million as a United States Army Air Corps base just before World War II.A coalition of city business interests arranged to purchase a series of contiguous land parcels outside of Fort Wayne, demolish the existing structures, and present a unified parcel to the War Department in a short enough period to meet a competitive deadline for the Development of ...
Smith Field (IATA: SMD, ICAO: KSMD, FAA LID: SMD) is a public airport north of downtown Fort Wayne, in Allen County, Indiana. [1] [3] It is owned and operated by the Fort Wayne Allen County Airport Authority. [1] In the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 it is a general aviation airport. [4]
Fort Wayne has been home to a few sports firsts. On June 2, 1883, Fort Wayne hosted the Quincy Professionals for one of the first lighted baseball games ever recorded. [1] [2] Fort Wayne has been credited for being the birthplace of the NBA when Fort Wayne Pistons owner Fred Zollner brokered the merger of the BAA and the NBL in 1949 from his ...
This is a list of airports in Indiana (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA, or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
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Airport's boys basketball team shared the basketball in a win over Erie Mason and Dundee wrestler Blake Cosby won a prestigious tournament. Local Sports: Nye nets another double-double for Airport ...
War Memorial Coliseum was known foremost as the home of the NBA's Fort Wayne Pistons for five seasons (1952–57) as well as the 1953 NBA All-Star Game and 1955 and 1956 NBA Finals. After the Pistons moved to Detroit in 1957, the facility continued to host at least one of their games every season from the 1958–59 to 1966–67 campaigns.