Raleigh Municipal Airport (demolished) – Raleigh NC

City:
Raleigh, NC

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

“$150,000 of WPA money went to Raleigh Municipal Airport for paving runways.” (ncsu.edu) The airport, which was located south of Raleigh, no longer exists.

Source notes

https://history.ncsu.edu/projects/raleighhistory/exhibits/show/wwi_great_depression/wwi_newdeal/wwi_newdeal_funds

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 12, 2014.

Location Info


Raleigh, NC

Coordinates: 35.732132, -78.650666

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One comment on “Raleigh Municipal Airport (demolished) – Raleigh NC

  1. Greg Kissel Angier N.C.

    when the were bulldozing the hanger they said for me to get any items I wanted (paperwork, log books pictures etc). Got lots of Truman Miller and family pics in the lot. They said if I didnt get it it would nbe hauled off to the dump

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One comment on “Raleigh Municipal Airport (demolished) – Raleigh NC

  1. Greg Kissel Angier N.C.

    when the were bulldozing the hanger they said for me to get any items I wanted (paperwork, log books pictures etc). Got lots of Truman Miller and family pics in the lot. They said if I didnt get it it would nbe hauled off to the dump

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