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Late 1948 CAA/FAA-restored by Don Boyd

1948 - air traffic control tower at Miami International Airport, Miami

Miami International Airport


From an FAA website: "October 1948..The Dade County Port Authority broke ground for this facility in June 1947; however, construction progressed very slowly and the tower was not turned over to the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) until late 1948. The most unique feature of this tower is that it later became number 7, after it had to be moved due to construction to lengthen Runway 9L/27R. It was relocated to an area adjacent to the 20th Street Terminal, a building used largely by non-scheduled air carriers. Today that area is immediately off the end of Concourse "F"."



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Larry Creel 24-Mar-2009 10:47
When I was about 9 or 10 years old my brother & sister & me use to go w/my dad to the old Army field behind the airport & play all day in the empty hangers & the old empty warehouses. There was a P-38 trainer w/no wings that sat on a set of rails next to a fence. You could ride it up & down the rails(I think about 200ft) & pretend you were flying. That thing was there for about 5 years & 1 day we were headed that way & it was gone. The rails were still there but the plane was gone. The warehouse had tons of freight stacked up against the walls & the center was bare. Looked like a giant skating rink. I remember there was a guard shack close by that we had to show identification so my dad could work on planes over there.