Marty Harris submitted this photo and note: “Flying down the corridor past Meigs Field in my Cessna 170 before they closed the airport on March 30, 2003.”
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When I was a young teen, Meigs was where I stood by the hour, watching the planes. Sometimes talked to friendly pilots, and once was given an obsolete printout from the weather machine, which I scoured by the hour. When I was 17, I started flight training and went there on a dual night cross-country. Imagine my joy in landing with passengers after I got my license at age 18!
I used to exchange waves with the pilot of a certain V-tail Bonanza. His name was painted below the cockpit window—Merrill C. Meigs. He was fairly old by the and flew with a safety pilot in the right seat.
It was a travesty when the mayor illegally ordered the runway destroyed.