St. Louis Municipal Airport, Lambert Field, Natural Bridge Road

Price: $4.95
  

Stock #: 96797
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: St. Louis
State: Missouri (MO)
County: St. Louis (city)
Publisher: St. Louis Greeting Card Co.
Postmark: 1944 Dec-09
PM City: East Saint Louis
PM State: IL
Stamp: 1C
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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Named in honor of Major Albert Bond Lambert, who created and maintained the field for public benefit from 1920 to 1928. Area, 546 acres. The six-point hardsurface runway system extending over 3,000 feet in each direction, is level with the field and can be crossed. A concrete mat or apron, 2,500 feet long and 200 feet wide, serves the hangars of the air mail and passenger lines, flying schools, passenger depots, weather bureau, restaurant and executive buildings. The radio range station is located on the southeast corner of the field about 800 feet outside the white boundary lights.

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