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A plane over the landing field at Cooley Mesa, Colorado, now the site of Eagle County Airport.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Series of three shots from the same spot, showing a Rocky Mountain Airways airplane landing at the Avon STOLport.
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Western Colorado: Avon STOLport [short take-off and landing airport], 2004: "The date of construction of this field is unknown.
It was apparently built at some point between 1963-82, as it was not depicted on the October 1963 Sangre De Christo Mountains World Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of Donald...
3) Eldon Wilson
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Studio photograph of Eldon Wilson taken in 1941.
"Wilson was the first in Colorado to supply a television signal to the residents of mountainous areas using antennas and transfers." He "was deeply interested in the [Eagle County] airport and contributed many hours trying to get it developed and funded, beginning in the late 1930s."
"Wilson was one of a small group of people that started and maintained the ice skating rink in Eagle in the 1930s, as...
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John Gabelman flew into Eagle County Airport in this Aero Commander aircraft
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A "Mainliner" at Denver Municipal Airport, 1939, taken from inside the terminal.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A plane at the Glenwood Springs airport with a crowd gathered at the left.
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A group of men and boys, gathered around an airplane at Cooley Mesa (Gypsum), now Eagle Airport.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Verso: top=north; road goes to homesite; south the gravel pit in action; taken from little hill end of run way to the right"
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Verso: "ranch house first road across hay field. House is across the road to the north; top is west; Eagle County Airport at left"
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One of the first American Airlines flights into Eagle County Airport in 1990-91.
11) Eagle Airport
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Plane on the runway at the Eagle Airport, circa 1930s. A man is walking toward the plane; a man and woman are standing by the plane.
"The history of the airport traces back to the early 1900s. County records indicate that in 1911, Louise Ellen Cooley purchased 650 acres of land from Hans Oleson. This land lies under the present runway complex." -- p. 9, History of Eagle County Airport, by Jennifer L. Taylor and the Eagle County Aviation Association,...
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Verso: "Eagle Valley from the air, west at top, east at bottom"
The Eagle County Airport is at the left top in the photo. The Hans Olesen ranch would be directly east of the airport.
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Photograph of the Walker Field - City County Airport, Grand Junction, Colorado. Front of the postcards reads "Durango".
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One of the first American Airlines flights into Eagle County Airport in 1990. The aircraft pictured is a Boeing 757 “Luxury Jet" model.
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A sign at the Eagle County Regional Airport advertising new "Daily non-stop 757 service from Dallas/Ft. Worth and Chicago O'Hare; Beginning December 15, 1990.
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One of the first American Airlines flights into Eagle County Airport in 1990. The aircraft pictured is a Boeing 757 “Luxury Jet" model.
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One of the first American Airlines flights into Eagle County Airport in 1990. The aircraft pictured is a Boeing 757 “Luxury Jet" model.
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One of the first American Airlines flights into Eagle County Airport in 1990. The aircraft pictured is a Boeing 757 “Luxury Jet" model.
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One of the first American Airlines flights into Eagle County Airport in 1990. The aircraft pictured is a Boeing 757 “Luxury Jet" model.
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One of the first American Airlines flights into Eagle County Airport in 1990. The aircraft pictured is a Boeing 757 “Luxury Jet" model.
