Show Ogden Airport Is Ideally Situated By LA LAWRENCE E CLAYTON The municipal airport at Ogden is beautifully situated some two miles youth couth of ol the city limits on the high ground overlooking the city proper and the entire Salt Lake valley to the west including the shimmering waters of ot the lake itself The highway passes alongside the airport and the Union Pacific main line track is only a mile or so to the south where it emerges from the Weber canyon Only two or three miles to the west of the airport the main malt line of th the e Union Pacific north and south passes so that Airport Ogden is beautifully situated at nt the corner coiner of ot main highways high ways both motor and rail tall radiating in all directions from Ogden The mighty Wasatch range running north and south to the cast east of the great Salt Lake take valle valley forms a formidable for barrier for lor the aviator who wh must cross it it The Weber canyon canyo n gateway through which the Union Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- railroad runs from Evanston t to Ogden is the lowest pass through this range In case of oC poor visibility or o or r storm the airmail pilots make it a practice to leave the official lane an and d swing through Weber canyon Thus Thu s Ogden is by nature destined to become be come the ultimate junction point fo for r transcontinental air traffic as she ha has s long been in railway traffic Airport Ogden comprises n a high but bu t flat tract of ot six hundred acres all o of f which is gravelly land which drains drain s perfectly and is never muddy even eve n after the severest rains This is a an n additional advantage afforded by very vet Y few airports The tract was purchase d by the city under a lease ease and option n in the year ear 1928 and promptly was s made a regular stop on the National Nation al Parks Airways route between Salt Sal t Lake City and Great Falls Montana 1 a The city has also erected a n waiting ag g room with telephone drinking water and other necessary facilities The Che field is well equipped with a revolving beacon and is completely complete y surrounded by marker maiker lights as we well 11 as danger lights The completion of this installation was celebrated by a an anaIr anar n aIr ar carnival on May 1 of this year The Chamber of oC Commerce Aviation n committee has for its program th the thee e e establishment of 01 Weber canyon as a an alternate airmail route with t the ge proper lights and the inclusion of ot 0 Ogden Ogden Og Og- den as a regular stop on the Verne Varncy y lines route from Portland to Salt La Lake ke City Cily Commercial Operations On March 1 1929 1029 D. D R R. R Brimhall and Hobert Robert II H. Hinckley o organized or or- r the Union Pacific Airways Airway rs s Incorporated since Incorporated since changed to Ut Utah ati Pacific Airways for Airways for the purpose of operating planes for hire establishing rag a flying school and distributing plan planes es in the intermountain country The Their it first ship was received the same moot month h and three more were the sa same m e year ear one of which was sold to a pm private private mt t- t vate vote purchaser at Boise Doise A very noteworthy event in the hi history history his his- s tory of aviation was a cross count cross country trip made by Mr Brimhall with h his wite wife and two children in the co company's company's com com- pany's pony's cabin monoplane TI The e journey journe began at Ogden continued to toN N New ew York and after a few days t tr the he r return flight was made So far tar as is s known this is the first cross count cross country r y trip ever made in this country by an entire family Another interests interesting i feature of oC the trip was the fact t that hat some fifty years before Mrs Brit Brimhall's Brim Brim- halls hall's mother r had crossed the plains ns from the Missouri river to Ogden in eight w weeks The rhe daughter and grandchildren grandchildren grand grand- gra vet children made the tha journey by air o over the identical route in slightly over vet o ei eight ht hours The rhe flying school of Utah Pacific fie Airways has already soloed fifteen eon students hailing from various poi points rats in the intermountain country The average cost of a course at this sch school is considerably under that of of other her schools school of at the fire country being ox- ox The school is gaming gaining gain ing in size and the company plans to m make eke physical enlargements so as to t take eke rare care of the increasing patronage of the school This company is the only distri bu- bu tor of airplanes in either Ut Utah h or Idaho and has the agency of the c celebrated cele cele- eler heated Tra elair line f sj 4 L S 4 J HANGAR AT OGDEN AIRPORT |