White Mountain Airport (former) Development – North Conway NH

City:
North Conway, NH

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports

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

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

“In 1934, Wylie Apte accepted their offer and became the manager of the airport operations at the White Mountain Airport. Wylie persuaded the White Mountain Airport Corporation to clear away the trees so that he could taxi near the highway, and in 1935 a WPA project cleared off the stumps and enlarged the runway to 1,500 feet (460 m).”

The WPA also constructed a hangar at the airport.

No longer in operation, the airport is no longer extant.

Source notes

Inventory: An Appraisal of Results of the Works Progress Administration (1938), pg. 30 https://archive.org/stream/Inventory19380630/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Mountain_Airport_(New_Hampshire)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 14, 2017.

Location Info


North Conway, NH 67210

Coordinates: 44.022461, -71.111303

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