Why is cincinnati airport in kentucky

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Gorilla Cinema Presents. HighGrain Brewing Co. Cincinnati was not spared, and its airport, Lunken Field, sat along a bend in the Little Miami River near where it empties into the Ohio River. Frequent flooding forced the rerouting of the Little Miami and the construction of the Beechmont Levee system. That was not enough for local officials. Enter the US Army. It needed to train pilots. Officials from the area jumped on the chance and requested the base be turned over to civilian control after the war.

The new airport opened as a commercial airport in That was also already taken. NKY came next on the list, but it could not be used. In the days before I, State Highway Commissioner Lyter Donaldson arranged for public money to build an east-west highway to the airport, named Donaldson Road.

A year later, the Air Corps declared it surplus property and turned it over to the local governments. On Oct. Or CVG, for short. The airport code stands for Covington.

CIN was already taken by a sleepy, little Iowa town — not that Northern Kentucky leaders would have used it anyway. They grudgingly called it Greater Cincinnati Airport but made sure the sign over the front entrance to the terminal also said Kenton County, Ky.

CVG had more and longer runways than LaGuardia, and onlookers enjoyed watching planes take off and land from the observation deck on the terminal roof. I'm awfully glad to be using it," said Capt. Robinson, who flew the first commercial flight into CVG. The first flights — two-engine DC-3s with 14 sleeper seats - landed Friday morning, Jan.

An American flight from Cleveland was first to arrive at a. A Delta flight from Atlanta was less than a minute behind.

TWA was five minutes behind Delta. Several hundred curious witnesses, airport employees and local dignitaries cheered as the wheels touched down, according to the Kentucky Post.