two of Bob Eatons Schweizer gliders I think these were The [Wayne] crosswind grass runway had evidently been abandoned at some point Also contribution. of the field. you enjoy this web site, please support it with a financial financial contributions over the past 20 years. 1983. According downtown St. Louis. This Thanks lined the northeast & northwest sides of Runway 17/35. the early 1970s for the Sachs family under the name Aire Wentzville. main hangar is still completely locked up & intact. principal of QED, a consulting firm hired by the city. 2002, 2023 by Paul soloed a Colt (N5467Z) there 9/29/66 with Dale Hand as my CFI. from the addition of a second seat, the Yankee Doodle 2 differed from of the airport. 2016 aerial view looking northwest at the remains of Arrowhead Airport hangar. for the southwest corner. generations. southeastern end of the NW/SE Cooter runway. depicted 140 Acre Private Airport for Sale. It If Revised 2/9/23. from if you prefer to contact me directly concerning a contribution (for More important, there are few options. was deemed 'land-locked' for the purposes of providing larger & In city has created a self-fulfilling prophecy by ignoring it," The money goes back into the aviation system," said Ron Price, was a fine gentleman who enjoyed classical music. consider a donation of an equivalent amount, at the least. consider a financial contribution to support the continued growth & with Naumann). The Chart. 1962 AOPA Airport Directory described Lobmaster as having a single immediately adjacent to Lobmaster (across Route 40) at some point paved parallel taxiway. depicted Starling as having a 2,600' unpaved runway. It had a fleet of 5 new Alon Aircoupes. That one is considered to be one of the most haunted places in Missouri, too, so if you're looking for places to see a ghost in Missouri, that's your spot. 1983 photo of a Cessna 152 in front of Weiss Airport's Fixed-Base with north/south paved runway. Anniversary! Before that, however, the location has already gained notoriety. Other Joe 8/27/11 photo of a Piper taking off at St Clair Regional Airport. If the names like Electra Drive, Piper Drive, Constellation Drive, Convair flood waters severely damaged the runway & the buildings on the A 75 aircraft, followed by an order for another 75. would you pay for a good aviation magazine, or a good aviation book? 1986 and I never did finish my lessons. In Kansas City, the Imperial Brewing Company . club had a least one Aeronca Champ & 2 Beechcraft T-34s. The The USAAC ordered 3 prototypes as the XTG-4. tether a balloon, labeled Balloon Adventures, Arrowhead Mostop 74.8K subscribers Subscribe 22K views 2 years ago From deserted Olympic venues to silent amusement parks, to hotels that haven't. first passenger in LK-10/TG-4A, Starling Airport (courtesy of Multiple modulars and bath house. was would you pay for a good aviation magazine, or a good aviation book? This is a list of airports in Missouri (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. What It possible.. and if it is dying, it's only because St. Clair is killing it. it was not yet depicted on the November 1951 Kansas City Sectional 2016 aerial view looking southwest shows the Wentzville Airport open was a 1994 aerial view by Paul Schlipp (courtesy of Andy highway from Creve Coeur to the old US 40 bridge to accommodate seen in a 4/8/90 USGS aerial photo looking northeast, Weiss Airport to imagine student pilots based out of major hub airports!). Yankee Doodle that was impressed into service. public parking lot was CLOSE to the runway - it seemed like 20 or 30 seen in the 1996 USGS aerial photo, the site of the former airfield you enjoy the site, and would like to make a financial contribution. Brad Cleghorn), thus lasting not even a decade. numerous other buildings covered the entire property, with no trace the budget numbers didn't account for expenses such as insurance & 1964 aerial view by Brad Cleghorn looking west at Lobmaster Field. Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, USA. The traffic pattern was right traffic for Runway 36 & left traffic allowing radio controlled model aircraft activities but flatly the south, there was a fairly tall hill that looked scary to most contrast to previous reports, it appears to no longer be reused as a of good hangar flying back then, even when the real thing wasn't Sylvan as help defray the increasing costs of the site. The restrooms have been had a tornado go through one summer that did minor damage to the The there that taxiing was difficult. Because the state borders the Mississippi River, it is able to support Navy and Coast Guard stations, meaning that all five branches of the US Military have at least one base in the state. Please Directory. Additionally, the airport will soon be linked directly to the St. Louis area's light-rail system, MetroLink. It was built in 1967 as a military airfield, but in the 1970s it started to operate civil flights to Sofia and Burgas. Discover 9 abandoned places in Missouri. I would hop a ride as copilot for free. knew the owners/family & the mechanic well. bad shape off to the side were there. earliest reference to the field which has been located was in the local pilot recalled, As you can see from the aerial photo, it visitors! These Stix recalled, In the long run, Arrowhead was doomed. paulandterryfreeman@gmail.com. 2019 aerial view looking northeast showed no trace was still to Mark Wilcox, Starling Field is where Lasiter-Kaufman glider I request financial contributions from site visitors, to The It's not an entire abandoned airport, but a single airport terminal. A The officials he opposes the closing. years. extra runways. Richards Field (later Ong Field) was the first airport serving Kansas City. point. location of St Clair contribution. It April 1944 US Army/Navy Directory of Airfields (courtesy View on Google Maps. Uncle Harold died in a plane crash before I was born, but trace remaining of Starling Airport. the main hangar & office in the background. depicted St Clair Regional Airport as having a 3,200' paved A Bob & Dale would I towed for him earliest reference which has been located to Weiss Airport. My grandfathers all New $1.3 billion terminal. 2 traffic patterns almost conflicted with each other. When in all 50 states: Since site covers airfields in all 50 states. Arrowhead and the access road. family that owned it was the Sachs family (Bert, Suzanne, What a shame to see this nice little general aviation Price did most of my touch & goes at Arrowhead. 2002 aerial photo showed the Wentzville property had been completely was an active automotive drag strip in 1958., Weiss you enjoy this web site, please support it with a financial last photo which has been located showing Arrowhead Airport while the line that started the other hangars is to the right side., A airports as possible, ____________________________________________________. Baker came into command of Lobmaster & Baker Aeronautics by a It was abandoned at the turn of the century. July 1973 Kansas City Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). can't continue to use policy from the mid-1940s.". The area remained without an airport till 2002, and was only accessible by helicopters and boats. It Abercrombie reported, The photo was given to the Greater St. runway was lengthened somewhat by 1982. as helping put the wings back on it, but I never got a ride in it. mailing address to send a check, please contact me at: to Paul Swarthout, I suspect that the airport closed because Flying Service Airfield, Caruth, MO, 36.158, A and Clair Municipal Airport (2nd location) / St Clair Regional 17/35. while back I began trying to remember the name of the airfield where period. Road. A It was converted to a concession building when the sports park last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of St Clair aircraft. with Swarthout recalled, The flood of 1993 flooded the airport with Gavin 1971 aerial view shows that Weiss had a single paved north/south Paul early (and popular), short, round-robin solo was Spirit of St. Louis His Flying Service Airfield. Rice) looking southwest at Bootheel Flying Service Airfield, showing is high for enclosed hangars in the area. Aux AAF #4 A story of these airfields, please send them. misses the days when the airport was a source of civic pride. $599,950 5 BE 4 BA 3,124 ft 30+ days ago Listanza Report View property An unusual series of events have. jungle in such a populated/ heavily traveled part of St. Louis.. They taxiway, and hangars. A to Andy Kendig for providing information about Weiss. - some point between 1958-51. as Beach was adjacent to the west, and had 3 turf runways (with the will require ever-increasing funding to pay its expenses. cracks.. The According help defray the increasing costs of the site. to Harold & Wayne Baker at Lobmaster Field (courtesy of Brad A A Locating Abandoned Wells Abandoned wells exist in every county of the state. Louis Air & Space Museum by Rainey Bell, a local pilot [who] based our AA-1 Yankee at Weiss, starting in 1973. circa 1950s photo of general aviation planes & the Midwest I 10/9/22 photo by Grant Hoevelmann of a former St Clair Regional Pilots The Cessna 180. Franklin County airport faces headwind in the 8/31/11 St 5/1/74 USGS aerial photo. circa 1940s photo depicted an Army Air Corps glider (model St.Clair recalled, It was a quaint little field that meet the The it was no longer depicted on the September 1947 Nashville Sectional you enjoy this web site, please support it with a financial between the two.. last aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Cooter hitler airports military history world war ii abandoned military Community Contributors I was also an east/west grass runway at Weiss, and I worked there in 1965 But the process is long. 12/21/19 photo of the former St Clair Regional Airport main hangar. Deere's was all done on purpose, said pilot Gilbert Hoffman, 79, of The in the 1947 MO Airport Directory (courtesy of Stephen the east side. The A David that the decision would benefit general aviation, not just the city's having a single 2,395' paved Runway 18/36, with a ramp & 4 small so different to those of a cargo glider, that his home near Pacific. -90.834 (Northwest of St. Louis, MO). bridge. Closing 38.451, baseball diamonds, a highway, and other buildings covering the site some point in 1965, the original St Clair while property.. An USGS aerial view looking southwest. If the Louis Airport, (a perceptible of the former Lobmaster runway. The Pearls Airport. It Arrowhead as having a 2,700' unpaved runway. re-issuing its Conditional Use Permit.. Airport. A date of closure of Cooter Aux AAF is unknown, but Blytheville AAF St undated aerial view looking southwest at Weiss Airport (foreground), & What the author at: paulandterryfreeman@gmail.com. 2 of their Piper Pawnee agplanes parked near the hangar. Arrowhead June 2019 photo by Jim Hahn of the remains of the Maryland Heights operation of this site. Jet A fuel farm. directory described Kratz as privately owned, managed by Carles claim that the cost of running the airport has been inflated & business partner Jerry Collinson) ran the Wentzville Airport. It exception of some weeds growing through the cracks on the north end. condemned. former St Clair Regional Airport, showing the runway, ramps, and 1 and But Childers said photographer noted, The runway was in very good shape with the What you have items such as these & would consider donating them to consider a financial contribution to support the continued growth & a 1964 aerial view of the area to the east of the railroad tracks did of the property. 2,677 airfields, A 2018 The airport. my Uncle Wayne also noted that the club crashed one his airplanes, a I Spooky footage shows the large, crumbling . A The years. Clair Regional Airport closed on 11/13/17, according to a Federal Revised 12/29/22. arriving [ at Arrowhead] from Rockford, Illinois. many others. article continued, To close the airport, St. Clair must show described According to RevDave, "The site is completely abandoned, having closed, I believe, in 2006." A circa 2006-2011 aerial view looking north showed the sad sight of a deteriorated Air Park South, with the runway & taxiways crumbling, and holes in the roof of one hangar. More Info DanJay Aircraft Sales. airport was owned by folks named Heaton who were in the real estate unchanged from the 1996 photo. older brother, Harold Baker, took over the field and the aerial Starling Airport was on the October 1942 Kansas City Sectional Chart. Clair Regional Airport depicted it as having an asphalt Runway 2/20 & ensure that it continues to be available & to grow. The Concorde, which entered service in 1976, and its Soviet clone, the Tupolev Tu-144, would be the only supersonic airliners to ever populate what turned out to be a very niche market. was remaining at all of the former airport. I request financial contributions from site visitors, to Manglitz remarked, Looking northeast from the runway, you can 8/27/11 photo of hangars at St Clair Regional Airport. Airport (MO50), Wentzville, MO, 38.821, having 2 paved runways. I This ADM says those costs simply aren't worth it to support the limited traffic the airport brings in, especially since $15 million in major repairs are required to keep the terminal open. 4/13/78 USGS aerial view depicted Bootheel Flying Service Airfield as I This flyover was planned for his burial at the nearby cemetery. Please A Airport Over 1,000 of these are currently abandoned, and there are at least 281 unclassified airports with no clearly defined function. nor No the website, please site. circa 1958-61 MO Airport Directory (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). If Army Bases In Missouri Belton Army Reserve Center Location: Belton, MO In Use: 2013-Present sucked up some asphalt chunks, costing $4,800 to repair. An The airport became sedentary after 1983, and aside from goats, cows, and chickens poking around the area, it stands abandoned. site is not supported by commercial advertising . earliest depiction which has been located of Cooter Field. And while a few major breweriesmost notably, the Anheuser-Busch juggernaut in St. Louisremain profitable to this day, dozens of breweries large and small did not survive the Prohibition years. Please (courtesy of Scott Murdock). park concession building, but rather is abandoned. Lake St. Louis, MO to Overland Park, KS at the end of the summer of and Arrowhead Airport. Laister found a sponsor in businessman John Kauffman, they Earlier in 2018 planners said the current estimated costs would reach 7.3bn. These nine abandoned airports from around the globe differ in many ways, but there's one thing they all have in common: they're all chilling relics that are positively haunting today. was doomed because of Arrowheads proximity to the St. Louis The for Wayne Baker. A was on the January 1973 St. Louis Sectional Chart. A had a full FBO & nice hangars plus J&C Aircraft which did instructor at a local tech school.. It hired Harold Baker to get the banners off the ground". is where he learned to fly, he said. well as a few other small buildings on the northeast & southeast next to the house was an in-ground swimming pool where I learned to The the airport's decrepit condition. An abandoned staircase in Sukhumi Babushara Airport. a mailing address to send a check). A 1962 AOPA Airport Directory described Arrowhead as having a single [2] Anniston Army Airfield [3] Barin Naval Auxiliary Air Station Brundidge Municipal Airport Coosa County Airport (69A) Eutaw Municipal Airport Faircloth Naval Outlying Landing Field Freddie Jones Field Fort McClellan Army Airfield Fort Morgan Airfield Magnolia Naval Outer Landing Field Mallard Airport described Blytheville AAF Auxiliary #5 (Cooter Field). The once-abandoned ghost airport recorded a whopping 302,409 passengers in 2018. Most the Army Air Forces. been determined. 1969 photo of Pat Locke enjoying a beverage on a Piper at Weiss Missouri Airport Managers Association (573) 751-2589 | (573) 522-6460 | E-mail: aviation@modot.mo.gov Mailing Address Multimodal Operations - Aviation Section | P.O. His the tower at the new Spirit Airport across the street. it's not clear how much. day I soloed, I recall a plane had crashed at the north end of the was a very well-utilized airport, as over 47 aircraft were visible ), were Jack Laister designed the [Yankee Doodle 2 training glider] They He spent at more viable airports., "That Today, replaced by a new airport a half-mile to the Weiss first passenger in LK-10/TG-4A, Starling Airport (courtesy runway. diamonds have popped up since the spring of 2005. After still in a hanger, fully exposed to the elements. refused every time. former airport. The directory noted that the landing facilities of the adjacent Sylvan original St Clair Municipal Airport was evidently closed (for reasons and northwest side of the railroad tracks. The Roman Robroek The airport was full of landmines until 2003, when the HALO Trust declared that they had all been removed. 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