Stapleton International Airport retail and residential neighborhood. Stapleton opened on October 17, 1929 as Denver Municipal Airport. The development of the airport was spearheaded by Denver mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton and Improvements and Parks Department manager Charles Vail. Prior to the new airport's opening, Denver had been served by a number of smaller facilities, including an airstrip along Smith Road in Aurora (first used in 1911), an airfield at 26th Avenue and Oneida Street, Lowry Field near 38th Avenue and Dahlia Street, and Denver Union Airport at 46th Avenue east of Colorado Boulevard. In the late 1930s the airport facilities consisted of two
Northeast Kingdom International Airport Northeast Kingdom International Airport Northeast Kingdom International Airport, until 2015 the Newport State Airport , is a public airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Newport, a city in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. It is owned by the State of Vermont. Northeast Kingdom International Airport covers an area of which contains two asphalt paved runways (5/23) measuring 4,000 x 100 ft (1,219 x 30 m). (18/36) measuring 5,300 x 100 ft (1,615 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2015, the airport had 9,452 aircraft operations, an average of 19