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Romulus AAF, Detroit; 3d Ferrying Group 345th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron Joint Use USAAF/Civil Airport Now: Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
The Detroit Sector was established at Wayne County Airport, Michigan and was responsible for ferrying aircraft from the Curtiss-Wright Corporation factory at Columbus, Ohio, the Ford Motor Company factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan , and the Bell Aircraft and Curtiss-Wright factories in Buffalo, New York. The bulk of this work consisted in flying ...
It was named Romulus Field during the war; it was then all east of Merriman Road and north of Goddard Road. The intersection of the two runways is still visible at 42°13′58″N 83°20′08″W / 42.23266°N 83.33564°W / 42.23266; -83.
On August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground.
Almost all of Detroit's scheduled airline flights used Willow Run until 1958, when the coming of the Jet Age drove traffic to the Romulus airfield, which that year had been renamed Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (the name it still bears). It offered carriers a new terminal designed for the new aircraft, a newly expanded runway layout ...
Billy Joel is on his way back to Detroit: The piano-playing pop star will hit Ford Field on March 29, joined by Stevie Nicks. Tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. Oct. 4 through Ticketmaster.
ON THE FIELD: Detroit Lions' Ben Johnson would be tough to replace, but he gave Bears reason to hire him Longtime Detroit Lions fan Ben Roth attended Sunday's game in Chicago with his 6-year-old ...
Detroit Lions fan holds up a sign during a game against the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving Day at Ford Field in Detroit on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023.