History
The airpark was started by Bill Olinger in the late 1950s and opened in 1958. Olinger was selling empty lots on the airstrip in the early 1960s for $1,800, which included a partial ownership of the airport itself. In February 1975, a plane that took off from the field crashed 20 minutes later as the pilots practiced aerobatic maneuvers, killing one person. The strip was built on the site of a former hop farm and had grown to 12 homes along the strip in 1976.
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