Annapolis Airport

From Annapolis Past Port

The Annapolis Airport was located at 38°56'56.4"N 76°29'13.2"W, on a 196-acre property 2 miles south of Annapolis, bounded by Bay Ridge Road and Edgewood Road. It appeared as an auxiliary field on October 1946 Sectional Chart. The airport was a clearing in a 1958 USGS topo map [1].

The Annapolis Airport was part of 1,300 acres proposed for a US Naval Academy airport in 1947 and re-proposed for that use in 1948. [2]



Citations

  1. Freeman, Paul. “Maryland: Anne Arundel County,” Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields, 29 June 2022, http://www.airfields-freeman.com/md/Airfields_MD_AnneArundelCo.htm.
  2. "1,300 ACRES AVAILABLE AS AIRPORT SITE: NAVY URGED TO RECONSIDER TRACT TURNED DOWN LAST YEAR." The Sun [Baltimore, MD], 6 June 1948, p. 28.