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Airport information for Bowman Field Airport Country: United States Location: Louisville Coordinates: 38.14.10N / 085.40.00W IATA Code: LOU Timezone: GMT -5 Direct flights form Bowman Field Airport Direct flights to Bowman Field Airport Find connecting flights to Bowman Field Airport Find connecting flights from Bowman Field Airport

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Bowman Field (IATA: LOU, ICAO: KLOU, FAA LID: LOU) is a public airport turn up 5 land mile (eight kilometre) southeastward of business district area  of Louisville, in Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA. The airport covers 426 acres (1.7 km²) and has 2 landing track. It is sort out by the FAA as a stand-in airport for nearby Louisville International Airport.

History

Bowman Field is Kentucky's 1st commercial airport and 1 of the oldest continually functioning fields in North America. The airport has played a vital part in the development and development of the land's air power industry. It was constituted by Abram H. Bowman, who was forced to air power by the involvement brought forth during World War I.

Bowman constitute an retail store for his ebullience after running across and characteristic a legal brief partnership with Louisvillian Robert H. Gast, a airplane pilot and World War I veteran soldier of the Royal Flying Corps. Bowman rent a parcel of district east of Louisville from the U.S. Government in 1919 to function the field, which opened in 1921.

The 1st business embarks get down with the aerial picture taking business organisation in 1921, and the 465th Pursuit Squadron (Reserve) set about functioning at Bowman Field in 1922.

During the Great Depression, Louisvillians would oftentimes come to the Art Deco depot construction to watch planes go away and district as a characteristic of cheap amusement.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Eastern Air Lines, Trans World Airlines (TWA) and the original Continental Airlines functioned rider and postal service in and out of Bowman Field. Commercial airline service elongated until 1947, when functioning were reassigned to Standiford Field.

During World War II, Bowman Field was 1 of the commonwealth's most eminent grooming found as good as the land's busiest airport. The installation got known as "Air Base City" when a bomber squadron moved in and more than 1,600 inscribes underwent basic grooming in a three-month time period. The United States Army Air Forces' school for voyage sawbones, medical technicians, and voyage nurses also named Bowman Field place.

Historic constructions

In 1988, three adjacent constructions at the airport were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Bowman Field Historic District. They are the airport Administration Building (1929; 1936-37), the Curtiss Flying Service Hangar (1929), and the Army Air Corps Hangar (1931-32). Since many urban airports are turn up in industrial area , this verdant position is unusual and brings to the ambiance of the Bowman Field Historic District.

The constructions of the Bowman Field Historic District are related to not only by historical operate and physical propinquity, but by their Art Deco/Art Moderne fashion and through the use of masonry stuffs such as brick, rock and concrete.

The dominant landmark of Bowman Field is its depot, more usually known as the Administration Building, fittingly titled in aerodynamic Moderne. As build in 1929, it was a reasonably modest two-story building with one-story wings, housing administrative and communicating business office, meteorological observation post, and eating house. During 1936 and 1937 it was almost trebled in size. This was action by pulverising the east wing and retaining the due west and central subdivisions to assist as due west wings of the new construction. The Administration Building human faces an elliptical landscaped island border by a drive and paved parking area .

Safety

Bowman Field is border by tree-lined suburban vicinities, but accidents are comparatively rare. As of 2008, the most recent 2 districting accidents had take place in April 2008 and April 2002.

Current functioning

Today, Bowman Field is place to centuries of in private owned aircraft as good as several commercial functioning, including Central American Airways, which opened its doors in 1946, Falcon Aviation (which is able to follow its roots to the old Louisville Flying Service that set about functioning in 1932), Kentucky Flying Service, and Louisville Executive Aviation. The Aero Club of Louisville, Inc. and the Glendale Flying Club also function out of the airport. Several voyage schools function there as good.

For the 12-month time period finish June 30, 2007, the airport had 98,722 aircraft functioning, an mean of 270 per solar day: 97% civil aviation, 2% air cab and <1% armed forces. There are 368 aircraft ground at this airport: 82% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, 2% jet plane, and 2% eggbeater.

Kentucky Flying Service is no longer in functioning. It was set about by Captain Richard C. Mulloy who winged C-46s and C-47s with the Flying Tigers over "The Hump" in World War II. He was known by employees and pupils of Kentucky Flying Service as "Dick Mulloy."

Bowman Field is now functioned by the Louisville Regional Airport Authority, which also functions Louisville International Airport.

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