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Madison Airport and Midwest Air Transport Airplanes
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Midwest Air Transport planes in front of the hangar at the Madison Airport. Located northeast of the city near the Oscar Mayer plant, the field was sometimes referred to as North Street Airport. Pilots of the Midwest Air Transport Service are posed in front of each airplane. Also in clear view is the tower of the airport's 24-inch rotating beacon. The Midwest Air Transport Service was out of business by 1933.
June 21, 1930
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Madison Airport and Cardinal Airplane
June 21, 1930
W.L. Pinney, general manager of the Madison Airport (aka North Street Airport) and the Midwest Air Transport Company, stands by the company's two seat "Super Cardinal" C2-110. Facilities of the air...
Midwest Air Transport Airplanes
June 14, 1930
View from inside building towards a row of Midwest Air Transport airplanes on the tarmac at Madison Airport.
Circus Performers and Airplane
1930
A giant and other circus performers, including Harry and Daisy Earles, posing in front of a Midwest Air Transport airplane while a crowd is watching from behind the airplane.
Crowd at Royal Airport
July 14, 1935
View across field towards a crowd at Royal Airport for Jimmie Allen model airplane flight contest and Air Circus at Royal Airport.
Panoramic View of the Kroger Air Show
May 6, 1934
Kroger air show, panoramic view of the Madison Airport, end of North street at Coolidge, from across the field.
Royal Airport
May 5, 1932
Two airplane pilots and a third man are standing in front of a Northwest Airways air mail plane at Madison's Royal Airport. There are automobiles parked near a hangar in the background.
