Only slightly off topic:
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields is a wonderful documentation of many, many airfields that used to exist and are no more. I'm amazed at the number of airfields on the San Francisco Peninsula and across the bay, some of which were operational when I moved here. Wanting to shut down airports is an activity with some history. An airport I trained at, the
University of Virginia Airport, was objected to because "
Mr. Jefferson did not allow for an airport or a school of flight in the University's 1812 charter."