Historic BGA - Ashland Airport (1)

[scottanderson]

Since I am from Kentucky (actually, my parents live in Madisonville, about 5 miles from 2I0, and I went to high school near there), I have a special interest in the historic Bluegrass Airlines. Found this info about the original Ashland Airport, which is the one that BGA flew to, *not* KDWU, which didn't open until mid-1948, about two years after BGA shut down.

Scott Anderson
BGAM006

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[scottanderson]

More photos of the original Ashland airport.

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[scottanderson]

First Day Cover for the opening of the Ashland airport.

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[Bill Von Sennet]

Thanks Scott!

Information on the historic Bluegrass Airlines is hard to come by.

[scottanderson]

I've always been something of an amateur historian. I'm going to stay on the trail of more information. My next move on this is to go nosing around Bowling Green and see if I can find some more particulars on the organization, equipment and employees of BGA.

[n7rg]

Hi all
with the ashland 34 st information, thought I would see if I could find whare
the airport would have been in the flight sim. Found ashland on google
satellitemap and inported into S builder.
The red line is 34 ST and the yellow line is along side the old runway you can
still see some of the old runway in spots. so I lined up AF2 cad on one of the
spots and place a 3000 foot runway.
I also found out it lined up with the Huntingtion radio range on the 317% radial. Nice place to
make NDB approachs nonthing to run into over the river, just a little weat.
The Attachment has a af cad and a execlude file if some one would like to
see the old airport.



If there is some interest, I would build a complet scenery for it


Richard

[Ed Burke]

Good stuff Scott.

No sign of your attachment Richard, I'd like to put the old field into the sim. Incidentally the 1996 GE imagery, although b&w, has a lot more interest due to the relative lack of vegetation.

Ed

[n7rg]

Hi Ed
I made a file to move the river, but you will need to disable files
in the fs9\scenery\namc folder.

would please post the 1996 GE imagery.

let me know if you want the river files

Rich

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[Ed Burke]

Thanks for attachment Rich. In GE just click on the clock in the tool bar and pull the slider to the date. I'll post it if you have no joy. Ed

[n7rg]

Hi ED
well I finally got GE downloaded took 4.5 hours + 1/2 hour to down load a Picture. Thanks for the info
Rich