Some American airports were once vital travel hubs before noise complaints, expansion limits, or sudden closures changed ...

The forgotten airports of the future – what happened to the next big hubs and why did they get abandoned? Our writer find ...

Across the United States, hundreds of airports once echoed with the sounds of jet engines, rushing passengers, and the excitement of takeoffs. Today, many of those same airfields sit eerily silent, ...

Newer airports, wars, bad design, and financial miscalculations are some of the reasons we have so many abandoned airports around the world. They sit empty, their runways cracked, and terminals ...

At a long-abandoned German airfield from World War II, a team of detectorists returns with sifters and metal detectors to see ...

MaryLou Costa describes the history of Berlin’s Tempelhofer Feld in a piece for Reasons to be Cheerful, explaining how the ...

Our Aug. 10 column, “What happened to Haile Field, a lost Austin airport north of Hyde Park?” generated considerable reader interest. Taken from American-Statesman articles from the 1930s through the ...

A study funded by the Waste & Resources Action Programme finds that abandoned airfields could be s a major potential source of recycled aggregates. However, the study finds that while the project ...

Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park is offering a brand-new ski hill for guests to enjoy this winter season, located on an airfield accessed through ...

For 80 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the airfields of Tinian Island, from where the bombers took off, were mostly abandoned to the jungle. Now, amid a push to strengthen America's military ...