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Thursday, 09 July 2009 13:52
Aviation started in the Grand Rapids area more than 90 years ago.  On September 10, 1911 a Wright brother's biplane took off from a Comstock Park fair.  Eight years later Kent County broke ground on its first airport.

The new Administration building (pictured at the top of the page), completed in the fall of 1939, boasted the very latest heating, lighting, plumbing and all modern conveniences. The building's 24-inch-thick, steel-reinforced concrete walls were built to be "bomb proof."

In 1974 when Gerald R. Ford and his wife Betty flew into the Grand Rapids airport after he had become President of the United States.  To commemorate our native born president, the airport was renamed the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in honor of him.
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