OtherUS US Marine Corps Air Station Miami FL
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HISTORICAL NOTE
The land where Opa-locka Airport is now was originally purchased by Glenn and Lena Curtiss in 1918. The airport is just west of the City of Opa-locka's city limits in unincorporated Miami-Dade County. The famous blimp hangar was bought by the City of Miami from Key West, disassembled and moved to the southeast corner of the eventual Opa-locka Airport.
Today's Opa-locka Executive Airport was originally Naval Reserve Air Base Miami, then Naval Air Station Miami, and then Marine Corps Air Station Miami (MCAS Miami) in February 1952. Marine Attack Squadron 142 was transferred to NAS Jacksonville in March 1959. Marine Air Control Squadron 8 (MCAS-8) was stationed at MCAS Miami from 1956 until early 1958. The air station was closed as a Dept. of the Navy installation in 1959. It was transferred to Dade County in the early 1960's except for the federal portion of the airport that remains as Coast Guard Air Station Miami. The non-air station land south of NW 135th Street down to NW 119th Street (E and W 65th Street in Hialeah across the street) between LeJeune Road and Red Road was auctioned off by the U. S. General Services Administration except for the large parcel of land given to Dade County for use as a regional park (now Amelia Earhart Regional Park) and the land given to the State of Florida for building the Gratigny Parkway south of NW 135th Street. The airfield portion became an auxiliary airport under the Dade County Port Authority which became the Dade County Aviation Department in the early 1970's. The airport was renamed to Opa-locka Executive Airport in 2007.
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1958-06-17 |
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Collectors request |
From the Greg Ciesielski collection.
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1952-08-28 |
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Collectors request |
From the Greg Ciesielski collection.
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