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Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland. The Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was a flight training program (1938–1944) sponsored by the United States government with the stated purpose of increasing the number of civilian pilots, though having a clear impact on military preparedness.
The land facing Rockville Pike was rezoned to commercial zoning in 1950, [30] allowing portions of the airport's land to be sold for storage buildings in 1951. [31] The flight school closed in 1951, [29] although the airport itself continued to operate. [31] In 1952, a lease to operate the airport was signed over to the Civil Air Patrol's ...
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OSHKOSH – Women in the Navy and Army weren’t allowed to train as pilots until the early 1970s. Even then, they were limited because of laws and policies that prevented them from flying in combat.
This is a list of airports in Maryland (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
After a decade of delays, the museum opened to the public at the Discovery Station in downtown Hagerstown, Maryland on 14 July 2005. [ 2 ] [ failed verification ] The following year, the museum led a community fundraising effort and purchased a Fairchild C-82 Packet, the first of a series of cargo airplanes produced by Fairchild in Hagerstown.
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