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What's in an airport name? Sometimes it's aviation history
Former presidents George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton all have airports named for them. So do former cabinet secretaries John Foster Dulles and Norman Y. Mineta and celebrities as varied as John Wayne, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Will Rogers and Arnold Palmer. There's also a long-held tradition of naming airports, airfields and terminals for people with links to aviation history. Here are a dozen to explore. (www.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
How about that Bill Clinton airport? You can blow the approach, and nobody cares!
KTOA in Torrance, CA is Zamperini Field, named for Louis Zamperini, an Olympic medalist who joined the Army Air Corps and survived three years in a Japanese POW camp. Today he's in his '90's and still going strong. A truly remarkable man.
KEYF (Elizabethtown NC) is named in honor of Curtis Brown, an astronaut.
This is an aviation forum, NOT a place to discuss politics or religion. Knock it OFF!
I'm still waiting for Springfield IL or MO to rename theirs to Homer J. Simpson Airport.
Cool!!! Sounds good to me!!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm airport pizza!!!!!!
As a resident of SPI... I would be stoked!!