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Middleton Airport and Morey Airplane Co.
Howard Morey (left) was associated with most of the airports in Madison. Prior to World War II he managed Madison Municipal Airport and when the military took over that field, Morey moved his opera...
Airplanes Refueling Over Morey Airport
1930
Two airplanes refueling in flight over Morey Airport. The airport and farmland can be seen in the distance.
Madison Royal Airport Repair Shop
May 26, 1932
The repair shop of the Morey Airplane Company at Royal Airport in Madison. Only months after this picture was taken, Howard Morey lost both his hangar and his airplane in a fire. Morey had establis...
Timmerman Field
1957
Advertising brochure for Timmerman Field, the successor to Curtiss-Wright Airport. Curtiss-Wright Airport, which had been established in 1929, was purchased by Milwaukee County in 1948. In 1951 th...
Shawano Airport
1951
Shawano Municipal Airport and airport managers Jack and Dorothy Wussow. In 1954 the Wussows gave up cold weather flying to become managers of an airport in Louisiana.
General Mitchell International Airport
November 16, 2001
Aerial view of General Mitchell International in Milwaukee, looking southeast to the Lake Michigan shoreline.
