History
Harold and Helen Bohinski Brown opened Pittsburgh Monroeville Airport in 1948. Before it closed in the early 1970s, it was noted for its air shows that attracted hundreds of spectators and for handling the air mail for the Wilmerding Post Office.
Pittsburgh Monroeville Airport currently houses sixteen privately owned planes in several hangars, down from 74 in 1970, and 112 between 1952 and 1958. Its manager for the past eighteen years, Raymond J. Weible erected a sign along Logans Ferry Road designating the field as Harold W. Brown Memorial Field. "Mrs. Brown is proud she and her late husband, a pilot himself, worked hard to make it a first-class facility in 1948 for small planes to land, flight instruction, and a place to hangar residents’ planes."
The Pilot Controlled Lighting is a unique freqency of 122.95 and requires three clicks to turn on. The are one set density. -Airport Manager
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