Because of technical problems with the route, the depression, and frequent flight cancellations, TATs service came to be known as "Take A Train." The cost for this cross-country venture was just 16 cents a mile, and, it only beat a cross-country train ride by about 24 hours in total time from New York to Los Angeles. The only inconvenience to the train ride was the baggage restriction: 30 pounds per passenger. Plus, there were only a few small air fields like Bellefonte in Pennsylvania where a passenger airplane could land. The overnight train ride avoided the mountainous regions that veteran air-mail pilots called “Hell Stretch,” where winds were often adverse and the weather subject to sudden change. at Pennsylvania Station in New York City, where he boarded the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Airway Limited, a luxury Pullman, for the first leg of the journey across the Alleghenies. The entire coast-to-coast trip was publicized as taking 48 hours to complete.įollowing that initial flight, the typical westbound TAT passenger, the trip began at 6:05 P.M. Two Ford Tri-Motors, the “City of Columbus” and the “City of Wichita,” were waiting to take them to Waynoka, Oklahoma where they would transfer to another train for the third leg of their journey. After leaving New York City at 7:05 PM by train on July 7, they arrived at Port Columbus Station aboard “The Airway Limited” at 7:55 am the following day. On July 8, 1929, 19 daring people including famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who served as Assistant to TAT’s General Manager, made the inaugural westbound trip. Port Columbus was a specially built air-rail facility outside Columbus- in fact, it was the only one of its kind in the world.ġ919 Port Columbus, photo taken from hangar looking south toward original tower.
The airport opened in 1929 on a site selected by Charles Lindbergh, as the eastern air terminus of the Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) air-rail New York to Los Angeles intercontinental route.
Columbus airport code#
The airport code 'CMH' stands for "Columbus Municipal Hangar" though that name is no longer used today. It is managed by the Columbus Regional Airport Authority which also oversees operations at Rickenbacker International Airport and Bolton Field. Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) commonly shortened to Port Columbus, is an international airport located 6 miles east of downtown Columbus.
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