[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6265]

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dedication will be Monday for new Hangar No. 10 at Tulakes airport (1) built at a cost of $114,834. Other buildings include (2) the Aero Design & Engineering Co. plant just south of the field; (3) new hanger No. 2 recently completed for $117,900 to replace one destroyed by fire; (4) new $277,670 terminal building to be completed around January 1, and (5) four T-hangars costing $32,000 each. Another step in the development of Tulakes airport as a major unit in the Oklahoma City airport system will be … continued below

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Lucas, Jim September 17, 1959.

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dedication will be Monday for new Hangar No. 10 at Tulakes airport (1) built at a cost of $114,834. Other buildings include (2) the Aero Design & Engineering Co. plant just south of the field; (3) new hanger No. 2 recently completed for $117,900 to replace one destroyed by fire; (4) new $277,670 terminal building to be completed around January 1, and (5) four T-hangars costing $32,000 each. Another step in the development of Tulakes airport as a major unit in the Oklahoma City airport system will be Monday at 9:30 a.m. when new hangar No. 10 on the northwest field is dedicated. The hangar was built by the city under the Oklahoma City Development trust. Funds came from the trust, insurance from a fire that destroyed old hangar No. 2 and from the Aero Design & Engineering Co...Cost of the new hangar was put at $114,670 by William O. Coleman, Oklahoma City airport manager. Other improvements just completed at Tulakes include new hangar No. 2 built from city bond money for $117,900, and four T-hangars at a cost of $32,000 each. Under construction is a terminal building costing $277,670 of bond funds and federal aviation agency matching the funds. When completed it will house an FAA tower, other FAA offices and airport control offices. Taking part in the dedication Monday morning will be Mayor Norick; Sheldon Stirling, city manager; Gov. Edmondson; Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Gerrity, commander of the Oklahoma City air material area, Tinker air force base, and George T. Pew, president of Aero Design. More than civic and aviation leaders have been invited to the ceremonies. Tours of the new hangar and of the Aero Design plant where Aero Commanders are manufactured are planned during the morning."

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PublishDate: T-9-24-59

Credit: Oklahoma City Times

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  • Oklahoma City Times, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, September 24, 1959

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The Oklahoma Publishing Company, the parent company of many prominent Oklahoma newspapers, amassed a significant collection of photographs that span more than a century. The wide variety of photographs accompanied stories in the newspapers.

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Lucas, Jim. [Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6265], photograph, September 17, 1959; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1692941/: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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