Purdue University. Airport
Organization
Dates
- Existence: November 1930-
Historical Information
The Purdue University Airport is the first university-owned airport in the country, established in November 1930. The airport was used during World War II to help train cadets from the Navy. It covers 537 acres with two runways, a system of parallel taxiways, and an apron area. Academic buildings of the Aviation Technology department are also located at the airport.
Citation:
"About the Airport," Purdue University. Accessed October 12, 2022. https://www.purdue.edu/airport/about/index.htmlCitation:
Purdue University, “Report Regarding Letter from Bureau of Naval Personnel Relative to Need for Improving Purdue University Airport Facilities,” Board of Trustees Minutes, March 30, 1943, 384. https://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/digital/collection/bot/id/18699/rec/1Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Purdue University Department of Aviation Technology records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 12
Scope and Contents
The Purdue University Department of Aviation Technology records document the historical background of the department, the Purdue University Airport, and key moments in the history of aviation in Tippecanoe County. Scrapbooks compiled by the department provide a rich collection of photographs and news clippings which highlight key historical moments, individuals, additions of labs and simulators, and aircraft at the Purdue University Airport. Publications among the...
Dates:
1928 - 2010; Other: Majority of material found within 1970 - 1999
Charles H. Daudt First National Intercollegiate Air Meet scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 236
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook documents the administration, participants, and results of the first National Intercollegiate Air Meet held June 21-22, 1935 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The scrapbook, created by the air meet manager, Charles H. Daudt, includes entry forms, race event rules, race maps, publicity material, participant scores for each event, and results. The scrapbook also includes correspondence related to the original donation of the scrapbook by Charles Daudt in 1976 to...
Dates:
1934 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1935
Charles M. Ehresman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 490
Scope and Contents
The Charles M. Ehresman papers document the work and professional activities of Charles M. Ehresman, designer of Purdue University's High Pressure Rocket Laboratory, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, and operations manager of Purdue's Thermal Sciences and Propulsion Center (known today as Zucrow Laboratories). The collection also documents the design and construction of the High Pressure Rocket Laboratory and its early administration and operations, as well as materials...
Dates:
1897 - 2011; Other: Majority of material found within 1960 - 1972; Other: Majority of material found within 1997 - 2009
John C. Franks papers on the Civilian Pilot Training Program
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 171
Scope and Contents
The John C. Franks papers on the Civilian Pilot Training Program include twenty photographs of Franks and a number of unidentified flight students. The subjects of the photographs are the Purdue University Airport, flight students, and airplanes, including a Weaver Aircraft Company of Ohio (WACO) aircraft, and a Howard DGA-18, which was a training aircraft. There is also a photograph of a World War II military fleet. Identifying information is included with the photographs. Along with the...
Dates:
1942 - 1946
Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 178
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to the MPATI program for airborne television instruction. Please see PDF Finding Aid for collection inventory.
Dates:
1961 - 1970
Frank Evar Schultz papers
Collection — Box Communal Collections 86
Identifier: MSP 334
Scope and Contents
Includes one U.S. Department of Commerce "Pilot Rating Book for Navy", used by the Purdue Aeronautics Corp. at the Purdue University airport, belonging to Frank Evar Schultz. Also included are four postcards with handwriting from this time period, with one depicting the Purdue University airport, one depicting the Purdue Memorial Union, and two commemorating Schultz's first solo flight.
Dates:
1943
Paul E. Stanley papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 50
Scope and Contents
The Paul E. Stanley papers document the earliest years of the School of Aeronautics and the planning that went into creating the school. Other material among the papers pertain to the early years of the Purdue Airport and Division of Engineering Sciences. Neil Armstrong was a student of Stanley's, and there are clippings, front pages of newspapers, reports, an invitation sent by Armstrong to Stanley for his homecoming celebrating in Wapakoneta, Ohio, along with other pre and post-Apollo 11...
Dates:
1909 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1969
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- Black-and-white photographs 4
- Clippings (Information artifacts) 3
- Color photographs 3
- Correspondence 3
- Aeronautics 2
- Air pilots 2
- Aircraft 2
- Black-and-white slides 2
- Booklets 2
- Brochures 2
- Color slides 2
- Professor 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Aeronautics -- Competitions 1
- Air pilot training 1
- Air pilots, Military 1
- Airplane racing -- United States 1
- Annual reports 1
- Articles 1
- Artifacts (Object genre) 1
- Books 1
- Bulletins 1
- Business records 1
- Civilian Pilot Training Program (U.S.) 1
- College publicity 1
- Curricula 1
- DVDs 1
- Engineering 1
- Engines--Water and hail ingestion research 1
- Files and filing (Documents) 1
- Flight logs 1
- Flight training--Indiana 1
- Floor plans (orthographic projections) 1
- Floppy disks 1
- Historical documents 1
- Manuals (instructional materials) 1
- Memorandums 1
- Negatives (photographs) 1
- Newsletters 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Postcards 1
- Posters 1
- Press releases 1
- Programs (documents) 1
- Reports 1
- Research (documents) 1
- Rocket Propulsion Systems 1
- Sketches 1
- Specifications 1
- Student activities 1
- Subject files 1
- Waterspouts 1 + ∧ less
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