{"id":148802,"date":"2024-11-10T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-us-airports-list\/"},"modified":"2024-11-10T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T10:30:12","slug":"top-5-these-are-the-oldest-airports-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=148802","title":{"rendered":"Top 5: These Are The Oldest Airports In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would naturally think that Kitty Hawk &#8211; the place from where the Wright Brothers took off an aircraft for the first time &#8211; houses the oldest airport in the world. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/wright-brothers-ohio-aviation-field\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >according to Deborah Douglas<\/a>, a historian and curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum, the First Flight Airport wouldn&#8217;t technically count as the oldest airport in the world, as it doesn&#8217;t &#8220;<em>get airplanes in and out of the sky safely, and it has to transfer people and goods from one mode of transportation to another<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of these historic airports were used by the US Air Force during the World Wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,13240,11505,3294,423,2135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-commercial-aviation","category-long-beach","category-minneapolis-st-paul-international-airport","category-united-states","category-us-airports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148803,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148802\/revisions\/148803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}