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This question is likely to raise several claims and counter-claims!
I also found the date that ORAC gives, for the first concrete runway to be built at Ford airport in 1927.
Other articles have:
- Newark claiming to have the nation's first paved runway, airport opened Oct 1928
- the Grand Central Airport at Glendale, CA as the first paved runway "West of the Rockies", and work started in 1923, but no end date given
- Le Bourget having one of the first paved runways in the world, but date given as 1920s.
What is a "hard" runway? Is "non-grass" sufficient? Is a cinder runway "hard"?
Not finding the other thread(UK question), would Marham and Waddington be candidates? They were earmarked for "heavy" bombers during the 1930s, so when did they get concrete runways? And what about the de Havilland airfield at Hatfield? When did that get paved?
Still looking!
Last edited by newswatcher; 26th Sep 2002 at 13:42.