SPRINGFIELD AIRPORT - PROGRESS RAN OVER THE RUNWAY

This is the 5th in my series of reports on extinct Northern Virginia airports

At the end of World War II Carl Allen opened the Springfield Airport with a 2,200 foot unpaved runway.  In addition to providing refueling and other services he planned to open a flying school to serve the postwar interest in flying by veterans under the GI Bill.

One of the mechanics at the airport was Charlie Kulp, The Flying Farmer of BEALETON VIRGINIA FLYING CIRCUS fame.  At age 82 he flew his last barnstorming flight in 2007.

The owner and his wife were killed in an airplane crash in 1951 and the airport was closed. 

Although the site borders 1-95 and the Capital Beltway neither of those roads existed in 1951 - President Eisenhower didn't sign the bill authorizing the Interstate Highway System until 1956.

Today, the land is home to the one level ramblers of Springfield Estates.

You may want to visit ABANDONED AND LITTLE KNOWN AIRPORTS - it has information regarding extinct aifields in all 50 states.

MY OTHER EXTINCT NORTHERN VIRGINIA AIRPORTS POSTS

BEACON FIELD AIRPORT    GEORGE WASHINGTON AIR JUNCTION 

WOODBRIDGE AIRPORT    CROSSROADS AIRPORT

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