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Beginning about 1920, this site was one of Pennsylvania's earliest country airfields. Many hundreds learned to fly here, including NASA astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad. During World War II, a Civil Air Patrol squadron helped America battle German submarine attacks along the mid-Atlantic coast. Pioneering rotary wing development here had a world-wide influence. A disastrous hanger fire in 1977 ended aviation in the Great Valley.
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