Ground Breaking for the Greater Pittsburgh Airport

1946-07-18

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Ground Breaking for the Greater Pittsburgh Airport
  • Title
  • Ground Breaking for the Greater Pittsburgh Airport
  • Creator
  • Hefelfinger
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B029.F02.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B029.F02.I01
  • Description
  • Pittsburgh mayor David L. Lawrence speaking at the ground-breaking ceremonies for the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. Ground for the terminal was broken on July 18, 1946, in Moon and Findlay Townships, 16 miles west of Pittsburgh. The construction project was financed with a peoples’ bond issue. By the time of the dedication on May 31, 1952, the cost had run up to $33 million. In 1953 Greater Pittsburgh Airport handled 1,436,958 airline passengers with a peak of 17,987,040 passengers in 1988. In 1960 there were 163,800 takeoffs and landings at the airport reaching the peak of 389,770 in 1988. The airport had four runways, one at 11,599 feet long, one at 10,500 feet long, and two at 8,100 feet in length. The airport had 12,300 parking spaces and 54 jet gates in 1990.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Lawrence, David Leo, 1889-1966.
    Greater Pittsburgh Airport (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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