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Virginia Tech Airport I-23 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Garry Thompson
The airport was founded in 1931 as a college owned facility. School funds and a grant from the Works Progress Administration in the early 1940s paid for paving a runway and VPI and other colleges around the country how to fly airplanes. An aircraft mechanics-training program, operated under the National Youth Administration, trained hundreds of high school graduates as mechanics. Students lived at a facility just northwest of here.
Department of Historic Resources - 2005
Tech Center Drive at the entrance to the Virginia Tech Airport Montgomery County Virginia
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