{"id":186758,"date":"2025-03-16T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/10-oldest-airports-in-operation-us\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:00:13","slug":"the-10-oldest-us-airports-still-in-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=186758","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Oldest US Airports Still In Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the oldest US airports still in operation? The        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2024422\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-balloon-flight-history\/\" >first crewed lighter-than-air flight took place in 1783 in France<\/a><\/span>, and during the Civil War,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027746\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/balloon-corpos-union-army-civil-war-air-force\/\" >the Union Army even established the Balloon Corps<\/a><\/span>. The Wright Brothers achieved the first heavier-than-air, sustained, powered flight in 1903. After that, there was an explosion of manned powered aircraft and these needed places to operate from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest airports in the United States often first saw airmail operations around 100 years ago.<\/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":[396,13240,408,423,2135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-history","category-united-states","category-us-airports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186758","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=186758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186759,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186758\/revisions\/186759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}