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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated March 23, 1961 partially reads, "Newhall's 6-S Ranch Airport has been closed by Federal Aviation Administration officials and the owners license to operate an airport has been revoked. The closing follows a number of accidents at the field and brings to a close a series of barnstorming exhibitions and aerial displays that brought tourists to the dusty strip Sunday afternoons. Heavy road building equipment was used to rip up the 2,600-foot landing field and prepare the way for a housing tract. A remaining 1650-foot strip was termed too dangerous for safe operation by Sgt. C. E. Cooper of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, aero detail... Cindy Ludington, pilot and operator of the airport for owner Mary Shaffer, sees no further hope for the field as a base for fixed-wing aircraft but warned that after the closing planes will make emergency landings in nearby fields." Pictured is Miss Ludington kneeling on the ripped-up 6-S runway.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
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