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St. Louis Lambert International Airport (IATA: STL, ICAO: KSTL, FAA LID: STL) is the primary international airport serving metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Commonly referred to as Lambert Field or simply Lambert, it is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Missouri. The airport covers 3,793 acres (1,535 ha) [2][3] of land.
The airport closed in 1959 and reopened six years later as Bi-State Parks Airport. It was renamed St. Louis Downtown-Parks Airport in 1984 and received its current name in 1999. The two survivors of the airport's original four hangars, Hangar 1 and Hangar 2, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4]
The museum is housed in the Curtiss Wright Hangar number two at St. Louis Downtown Airport, Cahokia Heights, Illinois. The adjacent Hangar one and two are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The Hangar was completed in March 1930 on the newly opened Curtiss-Stienburg airport.
In the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River; from 1870 until the 1920 census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its political boundaries.
Opened in 1997, MidAmerica is the secondary domestic passenger airport for the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area, after the larger St. Louis Lambert International Airport. It is a joint-use airport and is currently served by one scheduled commercial airline, Allegiant Air. The airport had 152,278 passenger enplanements in 2018 [2] (302,000 ...
St. Louis Airport may refer to: One of six airports in the Greater St. Louis Area. St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States (FAA/IATA: STL) MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Belleville, Illinois, United States (FAA/IATA: BLV) St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, Illinois, United States (FAA/IATA: CPS)
In early 1928, the city of St. Louis purchased the airport from Lambert, making it the first municipally owned airport in the United States; Lambert remains the area's primary airport. [ 172 ] Although St. Louis enforced a variety of Jim Crow laws , the area generally had a lower level of racial violence and fewer lynchings than the American ...
Sign for Spirit of St. Louis Airport A typical business jet at the airport. Spirit of St. Louis Airport (IATA: SUS, ICAO: KSUS, FAA LID: SUS) is a public airport located 17 miles (27 km) west of the central business district of St. Louis, in St. Louis County, Missouri, in the city of Chesterfield, United States.