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Above is an architect’s drawing of i ' he new brick and steel hangar which IS virtually completed at English Jfield on the Pan hand la highway vhere the Amarillo Airport Corp. hasA sod landing ara of 710 acres leased for 40 years. It is three miles ast of the Municipal Field.1 The ornate shop, lounge rooms, Restaurant and offices shown on theeft with the observation tower £ llrhere flood lights and the water pres-cure tank will be located already is Completed and the brick walls are *p on the main hangar which is l20x • p0 feet.|fl Harold W. English, manager and Operator, has moved his planes and /ther equipment from the old Eng-jbsh-Bivins field northwest of the• •jUty and has moved to the manager’s f ^sidenee on the field.A three million candle power flood light will be mounted on the tower capable of throwing a beam of 180 degrees angle for two and one-half miles.The 350 truck loads of gravel used to mark the huge 300-foot landing circle and the letters English Field, 100 feet high has been placed. Gas connections already are in and jpri-vate* dial telephone connections made. Negotiations for light and power have been completed and lights required by the U. S. Department of Commerce for a Class AIA fieldshould be ready within a few days.Beside the five-room manager’s bungalow will be another house for personal living at the field.In the shop section, which hasbeen completed, is the repair and stock room, the restaurant, showersand rest rooms for men and women, all on the ground floor. Underneath is the well pit. On the second floor are the offices and a lounge room equipped with gas fireplace and every convenience, which overlook the field.The well has been completed and all fences removed from the fieldwhich is ideal, perfectly level but with grade enough to drain. The field is located along the Panhandle highway and at the Folsom switchon the Santa Fe railroad on the north side and U. S. Highway 66 on the south side with still a third road bordering it on the west side.It represents an immediate expenditure of more than $50,000. The hangar will accommodate three of the largest transport planes now in use, the bi«r 32-passenger ships orten average sized ships.First work on the field was started July 15.The Amarillo Airport Corp. is a subsidiary of the Aircraft Holdings, Inc., of Albuquerque where the company owns and operates the only field, which is used by the Transcontinental Air Transport and the Western Air Express.A 160 acre tract for an airporthas been donated to the city ofMuncie, Ind., by Abbott Johnson,chairman of the municipal aviation commission. The site was declared by airport experts to be the best available there. The money appropriated by the city for purchase of a site will be used for development and facilities. The city expects to acquire an additional 40 acres.
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Amarillo News Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Thu, Sep 05, 1929
Page 40
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