Plum Island Airport, (FAA LID: 2B2) in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is a privately-owned, public-use airport owned by Historic New England and operated by Plum Island Aerodrome, Inc., a non-profit corporation. It has two runways, averages 54 flights per week, and has approximately 8 based aircraft.
The first flying field in New England was on the dunes and marshes of Plum Island, about a mile and a half east of the current airport, where from Apri...
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Plum Island Airport, (FAA LID: 2B2) in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is a privately-owned, public-use airport owned by Historic New England and operated by Plum Island Aerodrome, Inc., a non-profit corporation. It has two runways, averages 54 flights per week, and has approximately 8 based aircraft.
The first flying field in New England was on the dunes and marshes of Plum Island, about a mile and a half east of the current airport, where from April to August of 1910, Marblehead yacht designer W. Starling Burgess conducted a series of test flights with biplanes that he and Augustus M. Herring designed and built.
On February 28, 1910, the first airplane flight in New England took place when Herring – who had first tested gliders in 1895 with the ‘Father of Aviation’, Octave Chanute, on the Lake Michigan dunes – took off from the frozen surface of Chebacco Lake in Hamilton, Massachusetts, in a pusher biplane he and Burgess built. After the single flight, Burgess sold the plane and moved...
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