The Snapshots in Time Collection

High-Wing Monoplane and Hangar Row, Plaza Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, c. early-to-mid 1930s

High-Wing Monoplane and Hangar Row, Plaza Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, c. early-to-mid 1930s

Plaza Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina. A row of wooden hangars, one advertising Coca-Cola, lines this small civil airfield where light monoplanes await their next flight. Facilities such as this served the growing interest in private and sport aviation across the American South during the interwar period, before larger municipal airports absorbed regional air traffic in the later 1930s and 1940s. Project: 218570