Raleigh Municipal Airport, Old

History: Opened in 1929, Raleigh's first air transportation hub was constructed with three runways and a hangar at the present-day intersection of Tryon Road and Highway 70. Though all commercial traffic moved to the new Raleigh-Durham Airport in the early 1940s, the south Raleigh airport remained in operation until 1972. The hangar and airport administration building were demolished in 1974. More information. March 2004.

June 2016 - Most of original airport site has been redeveloped as housing.

Recommended Links: Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields - Raleigh Municipal Airport, Raleigh, NC

Photographed March 21, 2004

"Raleigh Air Port," Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill


Champion Map, c.1960 

This page was last updated on April 23, 2024.

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