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Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) has a rich history dating back to 1929 when it was established as Wayne County Airport. The airport's first l...
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Brilliant amateur film shot by an unknown Detroit photographer either 1945 or 1946 showing a parade along Woodward Ave in front of the iconic Hudson departme...
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In this video I go to the Detroit Metro Airport[DTW] my home commercial airport for some plane spotting! I also discuss the airport’s fascinating history.....
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Jun 7, 2017 · Old photographs of Detroit during the early 1940s. Detroit and the industrial region surrounding it, was plunged into semi-darkness as all except street lights and in war factories went out for fifteen minutes during a blackout drill on May 4, 1942. Thirty vivid, oversize black-and-white photos from the Library of Congress show Detroit in the ...
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 ...
Jun 1, 2020 · Detroit-Willow Run (YIP) By 1946, Detroit’s City Airport was overcrowded and the airlines made plans to move. By 1947, C&S and Northwest had moved to Willow Run Airport. Willow Run was built as the world's largest bomber facility in 1941, closed when war ended in Europe and turned into a commercial passenger terminal.
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Jun 19, 2018 · The 1946 Detroit Sectional Chart depicted Wings as an auxiliary airfield. The location & layout of Wings Airport as depicted in the 1946 MI Airport Directory (courtesy of Doug Ranz). It depicted Wings as having 3 unpaved runways, the longest being the 2,600' north/south strip, with a hangar & administration building on the north side.