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Wooster Municipal Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

NW/SE
  
3,100

945
  
Asphalt

Location
  
Wooster, Ohio

3,100
  
945

Operator
  
Wooster Aviation Center

The Wooster Municipal Airport was a general aviation airport serving Wooster, Ohio. It was built in the 1920s and was closed sometime between 1968 and 1972 and was replaced by Wayne County Airport 3 miles away on North Honeytown Road near Smithville, Ohio. The airport originally had sod runways but received a 3,100 foot paved runway in the 1950s. Upon closing the airport, the runway was retained as a city street, now named Old Airport Road in Wooster.

Accidents and Incidents

  • April 14, 1937, a privately operated Taylor Cub plane took off in poor weather conditions and lacking sufficient power to control the aircraft, crashed a mile away from the airport, seriously injuring its two occupants Harry C. and Thomas B. George of Washington, D.C..

    • References

    Wooster Municipal Airport Wikipedia
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