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Camden Central Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_Central_AirportCamden Central Airport (sometimes called Central Airport, Camden) was an airport in Pennsauken Township, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It had its peak of activity in the 1930s, serving as the main airport for the neighboring city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The airport started operations on 15 August 1929 with an official opening celebration on 21 September 1929. Eddie Rickenbacker attended in a Fokker tri-motor; he was Fokker Aircraft Company's vice president of sales at the time. and a Fokker F.32 made an appearance. There were air races and displays, and the press reported that around 50,000 people attended. The terminal building was completed shortly after the airport opened. This was in time for the arrival of the 1929 Ford National Reliability Air Tour, whose 29 competing aircraft, accompanied by 17 more carrying officials, support crew and press, arrived from Roosevelt Field, New York on 8 October, leaving for Logan Field, Baltimore the following day. This greatly helped to publicize the new airport.
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The airport started operations on 15 August 1929 with an official opening celebration on 21 September 1929. Eddie Rickenbacker attended in a Fokker tri-motor; he was Fokker Aircraft Company's vice president of sales at the time. and a Fokker F.32 made an appearance. There were air races and displays, and the press reported that around 50,000 people attended. The terminal building was completed shortly after the airport opened. This was in time for the arrival of the 1929 Ford National Reliability Air Tour, whose 29 competing aircraft, accompanied by 17 more carrying officials, support crew and press, arrived from Roosevelt Field, New York on 8 October, leaving for Logan Field, Baltimore the following day. This greatly helped to publicize the new airport.
Instrumental in founding the airport was, among others, Charles Townsend Ludington. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Townsend_Ludington > Ludington's Great Great Aunt was Sybil Ludington < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Ludington > of Revolutionary War fame.
If you know the area and have maybe been to the restaurant The Pub, this is why that area (the intersection of US routes 30 and 130 as NJ routes 38 and 70 merge into it) at a traffic circle/roundabout is called Airport Circle.