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pmanton

pmanton

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Today is the anniversary of my first solo 4/24/1954. An Aeronca 7AC at the lone gone Grand Central Air Terminal at Glendale CA.

I was going to solo on my 16th birthday, but the LA smog socked the field in for a few days.

I can't fly today since both my planes are out of commission for at least a week. :(

Maybe next year.

Paul
Salome, AZ
 
Awesome! Happy anniversary!
 
Happy anniversary old timer.
 
pmanton said:
Today is the anniversary of my first solo 4/24/1954. An Aeronca 7AC at the lone gone Grand Central Air Terminal at Glendale CA.

I was going to solo on my 16th birthday, but the LA smog socked the field in for a few days.

I can't fly today since both my planes are out of commission for at least a week. :(

Maybe next year.

Paul
Salome, AZ
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Congrats and happy 82 birthday!!
 
What a great looking building from a bygone era!
 
Wow the most interesting thing about that chart is that the basin still has patches of white (not yellow, I.e undeveloped land). My dad grew up for a time in what is now Inglewood and said he would go bird hunting right out his back yard - hard to believe...
 
champ driver said:
The airport is long gone but the terminal building remains.
I believe Disney Studios use it for offices and a small museum in inside too.
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Grand Central was the main commercial airport for Los Angeles before Union Air Terminal in Burbank (later Lockheed Air Terminal, now KBUR) took over in the early 1930s.

DC-1_TWA_01.JPG

The runway still exists, now known as Grand Central Avenue in Glendale.
 
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