Slated for closure in 2003 but pardoned through the influence of pilots, nearby residents and historians, the future of Smith Field (KSMD) in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is not only secure, but bright, according to a report in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
The city’s first airport, once visited by such aviation pioneers Charles Lindbergh and Jimmy Doolittle, was considered so irrelevant and obsolete by the end of the 20th century that airport officials thought few would object to its demise.