- City:
- West Lafayette, IN
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1934
Description
Sometimes misattributed to the WPA, early development of this, the first university-owned airport in the country, was undertaken by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). FERA also built a hangar for the airport.
Source notes
Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Indiana, 6 December 1935.
Mis-attribution: purdue.edu
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 15, 2017.
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