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As
the years went by,
the Kilduff's Page for Friendship
Airport and the other Airports in
the State of Maryland grew to the
point that it just wouldn't load
right, and so we have divided
them. I hope this will fix the
problem of the page not loading
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Harbor Field - Municipal
Airport
Before Friendship Airport, (
later known as B.W.I. / Thurgood Marshall
Airport ) opened up in 1950 , Baltimore had
several smaller airports around town. The
largest and most used was Harbor Field in
Dundalk Maryland, located just Southeast of the
City, in Baltimore County. The airport, also
known as Baltimore Municipal Airport and even
Baltimore Airport, was located on the Patapsco
River at Colgate Creek. The site is now a part
of the Dundalk Marine Terminal. The airport
opened for seaplanes in the early 1930's, as
City Officials hoped that the airport would be
one of the Country's largest airports as water
landing were thought at the time to be the wave
of the future in air flight. Baltimore offered
better weather than NYC, and on occasion Harbor
Field was used by planes to land when NYC had
bad weather.
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............................................. Above and above right - Two photos from " The Maryland Scene " , circa 1945 |
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.................................................................... ............................................................... .............. ..........Baltimore Sun Photo Tribune Publishing - Much of the airport was made by dredging and for over 13 years, the attempt at making the world's greatest airport was hampered by runways that would not settle in and would sink. Later, land operations started at the airport in the early 1940's. The airport simply went by the name of Harbor Field by 1950 and closed for good by 1960, as jets and landing runways took over at Friendship Airport in Anne Arundel County , with the old field being used by the Federal government for several years, until it was torn down and later made into the Dundalk Marine Terminal. Below right, you can see a map of the old airport, located at the intersection of Broening Highway and Dundalk Avenue. ......../...................................................  ........///////////////////////////................ ....................  |
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By 1939, the Yankee Clipper
planes began to fly into the airport. The
first three pictures are off those planes,
while the fourth ( below right ) is of a
smaller seaplane landing at the airport, circa
1939. Below, several ads for the
Municipal Airport from an old phone book from
1949. A few years later, the airport would be
closed down, with the opening of Friendship
Airport.
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...........................................................................................................................  ........../////////////////////////////.......... .........Looking south from Broening Highway , this view ( right ) today shows the Dundalk Marine Terminal ( Best view I could find ) , where if the plans had continued as were hoped, you would see in this view planes taking off and landing. A major port facility occupies the site today..........................................................  |
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............................................................................................................ ..A few old advertisements for
Harbor Field circa 1945. Years later, Friendship
Airport would open and the " jet age " would
begin.
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Logan Field
In the 1920's,
Baltimore realized it needed an airport, and
Baltimore's first airport, Logan Airport,
located in the Dundalk area around Dundalk
Avenue and Belclare Road was built. The airport
first opened as the Dundalk Flying Field, but
the name was changed in honor of pilot Lt.
Patrick Logan, who died when his biplane crashed
near the location in the 1920's. In 1930,
Eastern Air Transport Inc. began passenger
service from Logan Field to New York City, and
South to Richmond Va. Planes were also available
direct to Miami Fl. Ludington Air Lines also had
flights to New York and Washington DC..................................................
.......................................................................................................................  .............................................................................. ......From the Collection of the Maryland Air National Guard The field went by the name of Baltimore Municipal Airport for a while, but by the mid 1940's, closed down to be replaced by nearby Harbor Field. The below right shot shows what I believe is a pilot of a Baltimore Airways plane at Logan Field, back in the 1920's |
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By the late 1920's, commercial
flights ( above ) began at the airport,
and by the mid 1930's, even American Airlines
flew out of the airport.
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 From the
Maryland Air National Guard Collection
Logan Field, 1930's, and
behind it, the soon to be Harbor Field.
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..........  ......A early 1920's road map showing the location of Logan Field, indicated by the # 2 in blue gray. This older map has no mention of Municipal ( Harbor Field ) Airport, to be built later just North of "Balnew". To the left, a late 1920's aerial shot of Logan Field. |
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 So much for radar
! A local business shows pilots where the airport is.
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Logan Field were these very powerful lights,
perched on top of the Standard Oil Building and
Lord Baltimore Hotel, in downtown Baltimore,
circa 1929. ........................................................  A 1927 tribute to the crossing of the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh, six small aircraft fly out of Logan field and across Baltimore to mark the occasion. Below, several old ads from a Baltimore Directory dated back to 1940, as air traffic became to move from Logan to the larger Municipal Airport nearby. ....................................................................................  .................................................... |
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Curtiss Wright Airfield
I'm still gathering
the details on this small airfield located in
Northwest Baltimore, but I have located a map,
which clearly shows the airport, and a picture
of a shopping center, that is now located on
part of the old airport. The rest of the airport
was developed into housing. One emailer wrote
Kilduff's to tell of playing in the abandoned
hangars of this airport many years ago. The airport
appears to have been constructed around 1930 ,and
vistors back then included : Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh and Wife, Miss Amelia Earhart, Mr. Clarence
Chamberlain , among others.
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Glenn L Martin Airport
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 Glenn L. Martin
State Airport
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 Glenn L. Martin Airport is
still open to this day.
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 No, you're
not going to grab a flight out of Patuxent, but it's
still in Maryland and it's a neat postcard,
sooooo.......
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 Anybody
from Baltimore knows, when you do book a flight out
of Town, it's the three airport option. While BWI is
usually the best, it's not unlikely to fly back into
or out of Washington D.C.
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A few mysteries were under
covered while investigating the history of
Airports in Baltimore. Above left ,
plans for a Lindbergh Field in Baltimore,
likely plans to update Logan Field or early
plans for Harbor Field. ( Several emailers
have confirmed this )
........................................................................... ......Below, a few old postcards
found of the first flight over Baltimore. The
first is of Herbert Latham's "Antionette",
likely the first plane to fly over
Baltimore. To the right, Aviator Radley flying
his Monoplane in Halethorpe, which is
southwest of Baltimore, getting ready for the
historic 1910 flight. Apparently the event
drew a lot of attention in Baltimore and
Halethorpe.
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If you enjoyed this page, please
feel free to check out the entire Kilduffs web
site. Comments and suggestions are welcome ,
just click the Kilduffs image above right. Still
looking into Rutherford Field on WIndsor Mill
Road, Hendlers Field in Reisterstown, Essex
Seaplane Base , and Glen Burnie Airport in Glen
Burnie, all found mentioned when researching the
City.
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 .Aberdeen Airpark, Harford
County, circa 1953
Aberdeen Airpark was started in 1947, and built
on the site of the old Bradford Estate. Back in
the 1950's, it had two sod runways and parking
for atleast 12 airplanes.
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City, Maryland Airport, Circa 1960's
 .Rutherford Airport -
Just Outside Baltimore City
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