Original Quote by Coagie: Of course, the airport is probably there since the '20's or '30's, and might not have been such a noisy place for the surrounding neighborhoods, since it may not have extended out so much, or had noisy jets.
That is indeed very true, this is how the airport looked in the late 50s. You can see what remained of a 4th runway (dark gray). All the runways were 4,000 feet to 5,500 feet in length. In the early 1990's, runway 18/36 was extended to its present length of 7,100 feet for use by airline jets. I suspect up until that point in time, the people that lived in Airport Hills didn't see much jet traffic, if any, landing on runway 18, but some had a view of the airport below.
