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Title
Airplane
soaring
over
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
Subject
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Airplanes--1930-1940
Airports--Ohio
Cincinnati Lunken Municipal Airport
Lunken Airport (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Transportation--Ohio--History.
Airports
Airplanes
Flight
Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Federal Writers' Project
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
Airplane
soaring
and
gliding
overhead
near
what
is
most
likely
Cincinnati
Municipal
Airport
.
Cincinnati
Municipal
Airport
–
Lunken
Field
or
Cincinnati
Municipal
Lunken
Airport
is
more
commonly
known
as
Lunken
Field
or
Lunken
Airport
and was
named
after
Eshelby
Lunken
.
Located
three
miles
(5
km)
southeast
of
Downtown
Cincinnati
,
it
was a
commercial
airport
in the
1920s
'
30s
and '
40s
.
It
is
situated
in the
Little
Miami
River
valley
near
Columbia
, the
site
of the
first
Cincinnati-area
settlement
in
1788
.
When
the
original
1000-acre
(4
km²)
airfield
was
dedicated
in
1925
,
it
was the
largest
municipal
airfield
in the
world
.
American
Airlines
started
at
Lunken
Airport
during
this
time
, but
no
major
commercial
airlines
use
it
anymore
.
Instead
,
many
large
Cincinnati-area
companies
now
base
their
corporate
aircraft
there. On
December
17
,
1925
, the
Embry-Riddle
Company
was
formed
at
Lunken
Airport
by
T
.
Higbee
Embry
and
John
Paul
Riddle
. A
few
years
later
, the
company
moved
to
Florida
, and
later
became
the
Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical
University
.
Lunken
Airport
was
supplanted
by the
Cincinnati/Northern
Kentucky
International
Airport
in
1947
following
catastrophic
flooding
from the
Ohio
River
. The
flooding
problem
prompted
the
airport's
nickname
of "
Sunken
Lunken
". The
control
tower
,
located
at the
southwest
corner
of the
airport
, was
almost
totally
submerged
during
the
historic
Ohio
River
flood
of
1937
, and
now
has a
single
black
brick
facing
the
airfield
to
indicate
the
high-water
mark
.
Today
the
old
control
tower
is
home
to the
Lunken
Cadet
Squadron
of the
Civil
Air
Patrol
, and
is
the
oldest
standing
control
tower
in the
United
States.[ci
The
property
also
contains
public
recreation
areas
,
including
an
18-hole
golf
course
,
playgrounds
, and
walking/biking
paths
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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Image Width
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File Size
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Format
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Date created
2010-04-07
Date modified
2011-06-16
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