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Canton Airport

Page history last edited by John Healey 12 years, 8 months ago

 

 Canton Airport ca., 1991 (Dan Keleher Collection)

 

Canton Airport1

 

In 1930 the Massachusetts Air Terminal and Arena purchased land on Neponset Street and built four runways by 1931 that were used by American Airways and E.W. Wiggins. The grand plans for the airport to become a center for transatlantic traffic were hindered by the Great Depression and instead were a venue for air shows and Sunday trips by the White Sisters who would often invite friends to their home for tea afterwards. In the Second World War Two the airport served as a flight center on the East Coast and was a competitor for other government contracts with Bedford Airport, which often won because of its more advantageous location in New Bedford. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s the airport did not modernize and began to lose business, with E.W. Wiggins moving to Norwood Airport in 1946 and the Helio Aircraft Corporation (formed in 1950) moved to the Bedford Airport in 1964. The grand plans for the airport, which included a sports stadium and later the development of a railroad transportation site for industrial products, were never realized and the airport fell into disuse.

 

 Resources1 

 

Canton Comes of Age, 1797-1997, by Canton’s Bicentennial Committee, 26, 58-59 (call no. 974.4 C).

 

George T. Comeau, “Canton Airport in the Golden Age of Aviation Pt. 1,” Canton Citizen December 2, 2010 http://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2010/12/02/canton-airport-part-one/.

 

George T. Comeau, “The Canton Airport in the Golden Age of Aviation,” Canton Citizen December 9, 2010 http://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2010/12/09/canton-airport-golden-age-of-aviation/.

 

Dan Keleher, “Tragedy at Canton Airport,” Canton Citizen May 14, 1992.

 

Dan Keleher, “The Ellis Elm,” Canton Citizen October 12, 1995.

 

City of New Bedford, “New Bedford Regional Airport,” http://www.newbedford-ma.gov/airport/nbair.html.

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