The Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport.
And if you're from out of town, yes, the Cincinnati Airport is in
Kentucky. It's three digit name - CVG - is an abbreviation of
Covington, the area's largest city. You can see
Cincinnati in the upper left card below.
Artist's Projections
1946
This is Cincinnati's Lunken Airport in the 1937 Flood
One of the reasons the Feds chose to put the new larger airport
in Kentucky
was the earlier flooding of Lunken, where the first plane landed in 1918.
That,
and the City of Cincinnati couldn't make up their mind about which of
three
possible sites should have the new airport.
| These days, the airport covers over 8,000 acres in Boone County, but the original 928 acres in the center are still owned by Kenton County. It's the only instance in the state where one county owns land in another county. |
The Greater Cincinnati Airport
The Cincinnati Murals
View them
here; learn their history,
here.
The Sky Chef Restaurant, 1947
Comair
Founded in 1977
"Greater Cincinnati Airport, Kenton Co, Kentucky"
| The news of federal funding that would make CVG a reality came on 9-30-1942 in a Western Union Telegram from Sen. Alban Barkley to Kenton County Attorney Wm. Wehrman. It read "Covington approved allocation of two million dollars, three runways.' |
Dedication Ceremony
October 27, 1946
The Airport's Official site is here.
There are 11 family cemeteries on the airport
grounds, all well maintained by the airport. This chart is
from a Kentucky Post article on them
