Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields
Type of site	Private
Available in	English
Owner	Paul Freeman
Created by	Paul Freeman
URL	www.airfields-freeman.com
Commercial	No
Registration	No
Launched	April 1999; 22 years ago
Current status	Online

MacGuire Ranch Airfield, El Paso, Texas, one of the airports in the database

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields is an online database detailing information and first hand memories about airports in the United States which are no longer in operation, or are rarely used.

The website was started by Paul Freeman in 1999 as he had developed an interest on the subject. In 2015, there were over 2,000 airports chronicled on the site and it had been viewed over 1.7 million times.^[1] Freeman continues to edit the site along with a small team of "airfield archeologists" who do primary source research using old aeronautical charts, directories and related publications. Frequent contributors on the site include Phil Beutel, K.O. Eckland, Christopher Freeze, Chris Kennedy, Bill Larkins, Ron Plante, Brian Rehwinkel, Dann Shively, John Voss, Walter Wells, Jonathan Westerling and the late David Brooks.^[2] In the US, airports close at about a rate of one per week.^[3]^[4]

References[]

Notes[]

^ Pimentel, Dan (April 2013). "A Labor of Love: How One Website is Keeping the History of Yesterday's Airfields Alive". Airplanista. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
^ "Open and Closed/Inactive Listing of Airports/Airfields".
^ Fontaine, Tom (28 June 2010). "Small Public Airports Slowly Fading in Western Pennsylvania". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
^ Schiff, Barry (9 March 2015). "No place to land". Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Retrieved 6 June 2015.

Bibliography[]

Boyd, Grant (5 October 2021). "On the Hunt for Diamonds in the Rough". Flying. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
Cober, Ray (1 November 2008). "Passionate Pilot Preserves Aviation Past And Present Through Web Site". Airport Journals. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
Pimentel, Dan (22 November 2019). "Travel Back in Time to the Abandoned Airfields Near You". Flying. Retrieved 11 April 2020.

External links[]

Official website

[1] Pimentel, Dan (April 2013). "A Labor of Love: How One Website is Keeping the History of Yesterday's Airfields Alive". Airplanista. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

[2] "Open and Closed/Inactive Listing of Airports/Airfields".

[3] Fontaine, Tom (28 June 2010). "Small Public Airports Slowly Fading in Western Pennsylvania". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

[4] Schiff, Barry (9 March 2015). "No place to land". Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Retrieved 6 June 2015.

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