Floyd H.L. Durham (1918-2010) created Delaware Airpark after pursuing a lifelong ambition to own and fly an airplane. A Lenape Indian and the middle child of seven, he was raised on a tenant farm east of Dover, where he learned self-sufficiency and independence. After he was unable to pass the physical for the Civilian Pilot Training Programs, he learned plumbing and started a business in a small building behind the Cheswold family home. In 1950, he passed the civilian pilot physical and earned his pilot's license. He bought a hangar at the former Sunglo Airfield near Dover, bought an ERCO Ercoupe, and soloed it after only 2 1/2 hours of instruction. After Hurricane Hazel damaged Sunglo Airfield in 1954, collapsing the hangar on his plane and permanently closing the airfield, he repaired the Ercoupe in his home garage and bought adjoining land near his Cheswold property to create his own private airstrip. That strip, first called Little Acres, began as a place to support his flying but grew into Delaware Airpark, a privately owned public-use airport built from personal family income. As time and funds permitted, he expanded the 1,800-foot-long strip while running a one-man plumbing operation and raising a family with his wife, Doris, a schoolteacher. Without government funds or wealthy backers, he used his own assets as collateral when loans became available, refused to raise landing fees despite higher taxes, and personally handled maintenance such as cutting trees, plowing snow, and providing services associated with much larger airfields. He added a VOR instrument approach in 1970, a clearance delivery frequency in 1995, and in 1996 the airpark became the first airport in Delaware to receive an FAA-approved GPS approach. His achievements in aviation were recognized in 1988 with the Air Force Association's Miss Mary Biggs Award for Excellence in Aviation Community Services, and in 2000 he became an inaugural inductee in the Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame as one of the founding fathers of general aviation in Delaware. That same year he retired after selling the airfield to the state of Delaware. He died at age 92 in 2010, and the Quiet Birdsmen and the Federal Aviation Administration honored him by recommending that Runway 9 Waypoint be renamed DURHM.