Massey Aerodrome
Massey Aerodrome, (ICAO: KMD1, FAA LID: MD1), is an airport located 2 miles (3 km) east of Massey, Maryland.[1]
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| Operator | MASSEY AERO LLC | ||||||||||
| Serves | Massey, Maryland | ||||||||||
| Location | 33541 Maryland Line Rd., Massey, MD 21650 | ||||||||||
| Built | 2001 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 73 ft / 22 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°17′57″N 075°47′58″W | ||||||||||
| Website | http://masseyaero.org | ||||||||||
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  MD1 Location of airport in Maryland | |||||||||||
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History
Massey Aerodrome is a Public Use airport with a 3000’ x 100’ grass runway (ID: MD1) dedicated to the preservation of grassroots aviation. It was created from farmland in 2001 by 4 pilots. In 2015, five new partners joined the one remaining original partner to assure the continuing success of Massey. At Massey Aerodrome, there is an Air Museum, a static DC-3 that you can enter, 24 flying airplanes, 13 gliders, a rotating beacon tower, a 100 year old working windmill with cypress wood tank inside the tower.
Static Displays: N18111 1937 Douglas DC-3A (s/n #1983) United Airlines. Painted by the “Air Transport Command” Restaurant in the early 80's as a C-47 but never impressed into service in WW2. This airplane was used in the 1938 movie “Test Pilot” starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy and featuring Lionel Barrymore.
Antonov An-2 "World's Largest Single-engine Biplane" Russia, 1000 hp engine. (unknown history, date, serial #)
Life-Size, Fiberglass Scale Model Corsair on pedestal: F4U-1D Corsair, painted as F4U-5 #53 flown by Alberto H. Santa Maria.
The airport is the home to the Massey Air Museum.
Displays
Replica 1911 Wright glider made by Jimmy Dayton for the Sport of Soaring’s 100th Anniversary of Orville Wright setting the World Soaring Record of 9 minutes, 45 seconds at Kitty Hawk, NC on Oct. 24, 1911. This record stood for 10 years until broken by the Germans in 1921. The U. S. record for soaring was not officially broken until 1929.
N738 1946 Ercoupe 415-C, s/n 1788. Eng: 75 HP Cont. C85. Donated by John Chirtea, Milton, DE
ENGINES ON DISPLAY: 1710 hp 14 cylinder, Wright R-2600 Radial engine as used on the B-25 bomber and B-314 Boeing Clipper.
160 hp Kinner R-5, 5 cylinder Radial engine
37 hp Continental A-40 4 cylinder flat head engine (Single spark plug & ignition) 2550 rpm, wt. 144 lb. (introduced on the 1931 - 1936 Taylor E-2 Cub)
65 hp Lycoming O-145-B2 4 cylinder horizontally opposed engine (overhead valves, dual ignition). 2300 rpm, weight 165.5 lb. (1938 to late 1940s).
Cut-away Engine - Spanish Elizalde Tigre IVB (150 hp) four-cylinder inverted air-cooled engine (ca. 1940s). Used in C.A.S.A. 1.131E (license-built Bücker 131 Jungmann).
References
- "MD1". Retrieved 5 March 2015.