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In 1949 the airport added runways 3L/21R and 9L/27R, followed by runway 4R/22L in 1950. In 1946-47 most airline traffic moved from the cramped Detroit City Airport (now Coleman A. Young International Airport) northeast of downtown Detroit to Willow Run Airport over 20 miles (32 km) west of the city, and 10 miles (16 km) west of Wayne County ...
Coleman A. Young (1918–1997), former mayor of Detroit, and airport's namesake; Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the larger international airport and currently the primary passenger airport in the Detroit area; List of airports in Michigan; Oakland County International Airport, a major general aviation and business airport in neighboring Oakland ...
2006 USGS photo. Willow Run Airport covers 2,392 acres (968 ha) and has two runways, a continuously staffed FAA control tower, and US Customs operations. [1] It is one of two facilities operated by the Wayne County Airport Authority, the other being Detroit Metropolitan Airport, which replaced Willow Run as the major commercial airport for the region starting in 1958.
Alpena County Regional Airport: P-N 11,614 Detroit: DTW: DTW KDTW Detroit Metro Wayne County Airport: P-L 17,436,837 Escanaba: ESC: ESC KESC Delta County Airport: P-N 18,474 Flint: FNT: FNT KFNT Bishop International Airport: P-N 361,709 Grand Rapids: GRR: GRR KGRR Gerald R. Ford International Airport: P-S 1,631,398 Hancock: CMX: CMX KCMX ...
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MI-93-A, "Grosse Ile Municipal Airport, Hangar No. 1, Meridian & Groh Roads, Detroit, MI", 13 photos, 11 data pages, 2 photo caption pages "Michigan Airport Directory - ONZ" (PDF). (42.6 KiB) Resources for this airport: FAA airport information for ONZ; AirNav airport information for KONZ
Miller Airlines provided service on a route from Chicago (Meigs) to Cadillac, and in 1969 added service to Ludington and Detroit City Airport. [3] This service lasted until 1971, when use of the airport began to decline. Miller Industries attempted to sell the field to Reed City for $1, but the city was not interested in maintaining the airport ...
The airport received its first air mail flight in the summer of 1928 and its first regular passenger service in 1929. The first air traffic control tower was installed at the airport in 1935, becoming the first of its kind in Michigan outside of Detroit. [9] During the Second World War, the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces.
Camp Grayling itself has existed since 1913, while the airport was constructed in 1927–1929 for use by the National Guard Air Squadron of Detroit. The runways were hard surfaced in 1933 and the entire airport was turned over to the federal government for military use during World War II. The airfield was known, for a time, as McNamara Field ...