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'''Messer Field''' (later '''Central Park Field''') was an airfield developed and operated by [[Glenn Messer]] in [[Birmingham]]'s [[Central Park]] community beginning in [[1926]] after the closure of [[Dixie Field]]. | '''Messer Field''' (later '''Central Park Field''') was an airfield developed and operated by [[Glenn Messer]] in [[Birmingham]]'s [[Central Park]] community beginning in [[1926]] after the closure of [[Dixie Field]]. | ||
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* "[http://www.airfields-freeman.com/AL/Airfields_AL_Birmingham.htm#messer Messer Field / Central Park Field, Birmingham, AL]" at Paul Freeman's ''Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields'' website - accessed March 25, 2014 | * "[http://www.airfields-freeman.com/AL/Airfields_AL_Birmingham.htm#messer Messer Field / Central Park Field, Birmingham, AL]" at Paul Freeman's ''Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields'' website - accessed March 25, 2014 | ||
* "On Exhibit - Lindbergh Visits Birmingham" (September 1, 2011) Birmingham History Center Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 5 | |||
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Revision as of 21:06, 26 March 2014
Messer Field (later Central Park Field) was an airfield developed and operated by Glenn Messer in Birmingham's Central Park community beginning in 1926 after the closure of Dixie Field.
On October 5, 1927 trans-Atlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh brought his "Spirit of St Louis" to Messer Field for a two-day stop on a 22,000-mile promotional tour sponsored by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. He left again on October 7, bound for Jackson, Mississippi.
The field was roughly bounded by Avenue O to the east, 57th Street Ensley to the north, and Pineview Road to the south. Messer and Phoebe Omlie operated their acrobatic flying school there.
Messer sold his interests in the facility in 1935. It operated as Central Park Field until about 1946.
External links
- "Messer Field / Central Park Field, Birmingham, AL" at Paul Freeman's Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields website - accessed March 25, 2014
- "On Exhibit - Lindbergh Visits Birmingham" (September 1, 2011) Birmingham History Center Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 5