Louisville's Bowman Field is Kentucky's oldest continuously operating
airport and one of the oldest in the United States. Abram Hite Bowman,
Robert Bob Gast, and Wallace Sidney Park are considered the founders of
Bowman Field, which dates to 1920. John Bennett, Frank Holzaphel, Dick
Mulloy, and Wil Paris were among those who made the airport a success.
Bowman Field was the landing place of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St.
Louis in 1927. It also hosted aviatrix Ruth Nichols, who, in 1931, ended
a record-setting flight when her airplane caught fire. During World War
II, the airfield was repurposed as the Bowman Army Airbase and a
training facility for flight nurses. In 1957, Bowman Field was the
nation's busiest local traffic airport. As we approach the airfield's
centennial, the Bowman Field Administration Building, built in 1929, has
been hardly touched by the hands of time. Bowman Field is the airport
where the past meets the future.