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Colorado Springs airfield - circa 1948

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Published on 04 May 2018 / In Travel and Events

Views of small aircraft at the dirt field that, I'm fairly sure, eventually became the Colorado Springs Airport. Whether it's that or not, it's still a fascinating look at some old aviation in action. This film dates from the late 1940s, I think. Wikipedia says, about the airport, "In 1927 the airport opened on 640 acres (260 ha) 7 miles (11 km) east of the city, with two gravel runways. In the late 1930s the first scheduled airline flight went from El Paso, Texas, through Pueblo, Colorado Springs, to Denver and back. The first municipal terminal was built in 1942 in an art deco style. Soon after the terminal was built the field was taken over by the military in the months preceding World War II. After the war, the city regained control."

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