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| Date: | 10 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy at the Madison airport with state Democratic leaders. To Kennedy's left are Governor Gaylord Nelson and state Democr... |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | A flock of gulls flying over a runway at Truax Field, menacing aircraft and raising concerns for safety. |
| Date: | 01 23 1947 |
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| Description: | Area teachers attending an aviation education program boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 plane at Truax Field along with some members of the flight crew. |
| Date: | 01 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Three men working at the Civil Aeronautics Administration interstate communication station at Truax Field. From left to right are: Guy J. Blakely checking... |
| Date: | 06 23 1947 |
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| Description: | Rt. Rev. Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly, retired pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Baraboo, is shown boarding an airliner at Madison Municipal Airport. On the ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1947 |
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| Description: | Rt. Rev. Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly, retired pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Baraboo, is shown boarding a airliner at Madison Municipal Airport with his s... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of Truax Field, now also called Dane County Regional Airport. In addition to commercial flights, Truax Field is also home to the Army Nation... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of Truax Field, now also called Dane County Regional Airport. In addition to commercial flights, Truax Field is also home to the Army Nation... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An aerial view at Truax Field showing the Municipal Airport Administration Building. |
| Date: | 08 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, at left, christens the "Northliner Alice in Dairyland" with a bottle of milk at the Madison municipal airport, with N... |
| Date: | 09 07 1948 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin football team shown boarding an airplane at Truax Field for a trip to Oakland, California, to play the University of California... |
| Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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| Description: | American Legion members in front of a plane at the Madison airport. Membership Chairman R.C. Golden is handing 1949 membership cards to the pilot Colonel L... |
| Date: | 03 24 1949 |
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| Description: | UW President E.B. Fred (second from right), and Student Board president Tom Englehardt (at left) welcome Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams (second from ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of sixth graders, from Lowell School, are shown with a Northwest Airlines plane at Madison's municipal airport as a part of their study of transpor... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India decending the stairs from an airplane at Truax Field. Nehru came to Madison to speak at the University of W... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock. |
| Date: | 10 20 1950 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin football team boards an airplane taking them to their game at Michigan, played the following day. |
| Date: | 10 21 1950 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Badgers football team gets a warm welcome from a crowd of fans at Truax Field upon their return to Madison despite their 26-12 loss to the Un... |
| Date: | 11 18 1950 |
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| Description: | Part of a crowd of 150 waiting at the fence at the Truax airport terminal as the Badger football team's chartered airplane returns at 8:20 PM after losing ... |
| Date: | 09 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Colonel Collins H. Ferris stands beside his wife as he is greeted at the Madison airport upon returning from Japan. He was the commander at Truax Field fro... |
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