Massey Aerodrome is a Public Use airport with a 3000' x 100' grass runway (ID: MD1) dedicated to the preservation of grassroots aviation. It was created from farmland in 2001 by 4 pilots. In 2015, five new partners joined the one remaining original partner to assure the continuing success of Massey. At Massey Aerodrome, there is an Air Museum, a static DC-3 that you can enter, 24 flying airplanes, 13 gliders, a rotating beacon tower, a 100 year old working windmill with cypress wood tank inside the tower.
Static Displays: N18111 1937 Douglas DC-3A (s/n #1983) United Airlines. Painted by the "Air Transport Command" Restaurant in the early 80's as a C-47 but never impressed into service in WW2. This airplane was used in the 1938 movie "Test Pilot" starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy and featuring Lionel Barrymore.
Antonov An-2 "World's Largest Single-engine Biplane" Russia, 1000 hp engine. (unknown history, date, serial #)
Life-Size, Fiberglass Scale Model Corsair on pedestal: F4U-1D Corsair, painted as F4U-5 #53 flown by Alberto H. Santa Maria.
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