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Massey Aerodrome (ICAO: KMD1, FAA LID: MD1) is an airport located 2 miles (3 km) east of Massey, Maryland, United States.[1]

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Massey Aerodrome
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: MD1
Summary
Operator	Massey Aero LLC
Serves	Massey, Maryland
Location	33541 Maryland Line Rd., Massey, MD 21650
Built	2001
Elevation AMSL	73 ft / 22 m
Coordinates	39°17′57″N 075°47′58″W
Website	http://masseyaero.org
Map
MD1 Location of airport in Maryland
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 2-20 3,000 914 Turf
Statistics (2019)
23 flying airplanes, 11 gliders on field

History

Massey Aerodrome is a public use airport with a 3000’ x 100’ grass runway (ID: MD1) dedicated to the preservation of grassroots aviation.

It was created from farmland in 2001 by four pilots. In 2015, five new partners joined the one remaining original partner to assure the continuing success of Massey.

Massey Aerodrome features the Massey Air Museum, a static DC-3 that visitors can enter, 24 flying airplanes, 13 gliders, a rotating beacon tower, and a 100-year-old working windmill with cypress wood tank inside the tower.

Static displays include:

• N18111 1937 Douglas DC-3A (s/n #1983) United Airlines. It was painted by the “Air Transport Command” restaurant in the early 80s as a C-47 but was never impressed into service in WW2. This airplane was used in the 1938 movie Test Pilot.
• Antonov An-2 "World's Largest Single-engine Biplane" Russia, 1000 hp engine
• Life-size, fiberglass scale model Corsair on pedestal: F4U-1D Corsair, painted as F4U-5 #53 flown by Alberto H. Santa Maria

Displays

• Replica 1911 Wright glider made by Jimmy Dayton for the Sport of Soaring's 100th anniversary of Orville Wright setting the world soaring record of 9 minutes, 45 seconds at Kitty Hawk, NC on October 24, 1911. This record stood for ten years until broken by the Germans in 1921. The U.S. record for soaring was not officially broken until 1929.
• N738 1946 Ercoupe 415-C, s/n 1788. Eng: 75 HP Cont. C85. Donated by John Chirtea, Milton, DE.

Engines on display include:

• 1710 hp 14 cylinder, Wright R-2600 Radial engine as used on the B-25 bomber and B-314 Boeing Clipper
• 160 hp Kinner R-5, 5 cylinder radial engine
• 37 hp Continental A-40 4 cylinder flat head engine (single spark plug and ignition), 2550 rpm, wt. 144 lb. (introduced on the 1931-1936 Taylor E-2 Cub)
• 65 hp Lycoming O-145-B2 4 cylinder horizontally opposed engine (overhead valves, dual ignition), 2300 rpm, weight 165.5 lb (1938 to late 1940s)
• Cut-away engine - Spanish Elizalde Tigre IVB (150 hp) four-cylinder inverted air-cooled engine (ca. 1940s), Used in C.A.S.A. 1.131E (license-built Bücker 131 Jungmann)

References

External links

• Official website
• YouTube of Massey Aerodrome Fly In

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