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Prior to the new airport's opening, Denver had been served by a number of smaller facilities, including an airstrip along Smith Road in Aurora (first used in 1911), an airfield at 26th Avenue and Oneida Street, Lowry Field near 38th Avenue and Dahlia Street, and Denver Union Airport at 46th Avenue east of Colorado Boulevard. [4]
Stapleton was replaced by Denver International Airport in 1995. It has since been decommissioned and the property was redeveloped as a retail and residential neighborhood. Continental merged with UAL Corporation (the parent company of United Airlines) via a stock swap in 2010, and the integration was completed in 2012.
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Colorado (10 P) Pages in category "Defunct airports in Colorado" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The airport was established between 1960 and 1963 as Hanson Airfield, serving private pilots. [1] Numerous attempts were made by proponents for commercial aviation to establish a public airport at Breckenridge STOLport, but none of them were successful. The last aircraft to use the airport was to avoid poor weather in 2005. [2]
Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (was Jefferson Co.) R 670 Centennial APA: APA KAPA Centennial Airport: R 496 Colorado Springs: FLY: KFLY Meadow Lake Airport (was FAA: 00V) R 0 General aviation airports: Akron: AKO: AKO KAKO Colorado Plains Regional Airport: GA 0 Boulder: BDU: WBU: KBDU Boulder Municipal Airport: GA 0 Buena Vista: AEJ: KAEJ
August 25: Denver Municipal Airport renamed Stapleton International Airport. [136] 1947 J. Quigg Newton defeats incumbent Mayor Stapleton, becoming the first Mayor born in the city and Denver's youngest mayor to date. [137] 1948 August – Bears Stadium opens. [138] 1950 Population of the City & County: 415,786 24th most populous US city. [40]
As of Wednesday afternoon, the Airport fire, which began on September 9, has burned roughly 22, 376 acres, according to Cal Fire. Named for the small facility for flying remote controlled planes ...
United Airlines Flight 859 was a Douglas DC-8, registration N8040U [1], on a scheduled passenger flight that crashed on landing at Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado after departing from Omaha, Nebraska's Eppley Airfield on July 11, 1961. Eighteen people were killed, and 84 were injured.