Intermediate Field 57B / Beltsville Airport (abandoned) | abandoned / shut down, interesting place

USA / Maryland / Glenn Dale /
 airport, abandoned / shut down, interesting place
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You can see where the runways used to be.

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: www.airfields-freeman.com/MD/Airfields_MD_PG_N.htm#belt...
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Coordinates:   39°1'30"N   76°49'20"W

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  • http://www.airfields-freeman.com/MD/Airfields_MD_PG_N.htm#beltsville
  • Part of the WWII defenses of the D.C. region, now part of the USDA Beltsville Agriculture Research Center and the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.
  • Retired LtCol Don Dragoo taught me to fly a Cessna 150 at this airport in 1971 under the Air Force ROTC program at Catholic University in DC. I'm still flying.
This article was last modified 16 years ago