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Aerial League of America

possibly active New York, Washington DC, and Paris, about 1917 - 1939

BiographyThe George Washington Air Junction was going to be the nation's largest airport. It was going to have the world's longest runway. It was going to be many, many things, at least according to entrepreneur Henry Woodhouse, shown above with hat in hand. Woodhouse, an ex-con (he was sentenced to four years in 1905 for killing a man), billed himself as president of the Aerial League of America, but there's no evidence that such a league actually existed. In 1928, he secured more than 2,000 acres in what is now Huntley Meadows Park in Fairfax County and declared the area ideal for air traffic. The Washington Post
January 28, 2001 | Copyright

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