Harvard Aviation Field was an airfield operational in the early-20th century in Quincy, Massachusetts .
6-723: In 1910 the Harvard Aeronautical Society leased an undeveloped 500-acre (200 ha) parcel of marshland and upland located on the Squantum Peninsula from the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and named it Harvard Aviation Field. It used the airfield to hold the 1910 and 1911 Harvard-Boston Aero Meets. In addition, other groups used the Harvard Aviation Field for the first Intercollegiate Glider Meet in 1911, as well as for
12-648: Is a state-owned, public recreation area located on the Squantum peninsula of Quincy , Massachusetts , United States. The park was created on the site of the former Squantum Naval Air Station , which is preserved in a 2,700-foot-long (820 m) strip of runway, and the former dockworks of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation . The park is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and
18-733: Is associated with the development of the Neponset River Reservation . The park provides views of the Boston skyline and opportunities for picnicking, canoeing, bird watching, and shoreline fishing as well as paths for running and in-line skating. It is the eastern terminus of the Quincy RiverWalk, a 2-mile trail along the Quincy side of the Neponset River Estuary, and sits at the eastern end of
24-587: The former Harvard Aviation Field for flight testing and flight instruction purposes. The Sturtevant Company, which later in 1945 became part of Westinghouse , was the first builder of airplane engines in Massachusetts, the first to produce all-metal fuselage planes for the US Navy and Army, and the only large scale aircraft manufacturer in the Boston area. Squantum Point Park Squantum Point Park
30-525: The ill-fated 1912 Boston Air Meet. The airfield's location on the Harvard 1910 meet posters was given as Atlantic, Massachusetts, and the railroad station nearest the field was also called Atlantic. This station was just after the old Neponset station on the New Haven Railroad line ( Old Colony Railroad branch) and right before the modern day Red Line North Quincy Station . In 1915, after
36-537: The lease expired with the Harvard Aeronautical Society, the New Haven Railroad rented the former Harvard Aviation Field to Harry M. Jones , who used the site to provide flight instruction. W. Starling Burgess also made occasional use of the former Harvard Aviation Field around this time for flight testing purposes and to provide flight instruction to buyers of his company's aircraft. In 1916, Sturtevant Aeroplane Company of Hyde Park in Boston took over
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