"Historic Lansdowne Airport/Youngstown's hidden secret"

[Youngstownshrimp]

Billy you left out airparks for residential private aviators.
Over a hundred years ago, you would be in the "do nothing" party decrying that man was not intended to fly and the bicycle repair shop brothers were evil demons challenging God lol.

[Billy Mumphrey]

Well, with all the noise coming from the fracking wells you won't hear or notice the jet air engines! lol

[Why?Town]

suprisingly, that model jet does NOT make much less noise than its full sized counterpart

[jay]

RC airplanes can now be powered by miniature jet engines.  I wonder how much noise a four engine model would make.

[Billy Mumphrey]

First we allow fracking inside the city limits of Youngstown, now we want to build a drone research park so we can build devices that can be used to spy on Americans as well as kill them without due process? What's next? A nuke plant along the Mahoning River? A bio-chemical factory downtown after the Lemon Grove goes belly-up? Man, the leftists will have plenty to protest about in the coming years! The party continues! Thanks for sharing!

[Towntalk]

Lansdowne Airport was opened on late October 1926 to handle air mail. The length of its runway is 3,073 and is not equipped for night flights. As aircraft got larger, and needed longer runways, the city built the Youngstown Municipal Airport in Vienna Center, and Lansdowne was sold to private individuals.

While Lansdowne is listed as a public airport, it has been closed due to lack of maintenance.
The most current info:


http://www.airnav.com/airport/04G

[Youngstownshrimp]

At the end of Lansdowne on the eastside beginning at Thornhill road is vast acreage that is the historic Lansdowne Airport.  TownTalk is best qualified to give you the rich history, I want to bring forth a great opportunity for Youngstown and the region, development.
Could the Lansdowne airport be a "drone research park" experimenting with natural gas turbines as their power paks?  Dayton, Ohio is at the forefront in drone technology, probably because of Wright Patterson AFB.  Youngstown has the Utica with its own vast reservoir of natural gas the energy of the future.  How about a residential airpark, where private aviators build homes on their own shared private runway, this exist all over the country.
Today the Chamber tells us that there is demand now for 'greenfields."  The Lansdowne Airport is one of the last remaining large acreage tracks in Youngstown.