History
Albuquerque in the 1930s was served by two private airports, West Mesa Airport and Oxnard Field. Around 1935 it was suggested that the city build a new public airport using WPA money. Having secured $520,500 USD in funding, Governor Clyde Tingley broke ground for the project on February 28, 1937. Albuquerque Municipal Airport opened in 1939 with two paved runways, a Pueblo Style terminal building designed by Ernest Blumenthal, and a massive hangar designed to accommodate the new Boeing 307.
The April 1957 OAG shows 31 weekday departures: 13 on Continental, 12 TWA and 6 Frontier.
The present terminal was designed by William E. Burk Jr. and constructed in 1965 on a site just east of the original terminal. It has since been expanded twice, first in 1989, which was designed by Phillip Jacobson and BPLW Associates and most recently in 1996. The old terminal has been restored and currently houses offices of the Transportation Security Administration. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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