Once symbols of progress and power, airports now stand frozen in time — empty control towers, silent terminals, and cracked runways that stretch into the past. From Cold War relics to futuristic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A November 1927 photo show two Waco GXE biplanes inside a hangar at University Airport in Austin. (Courtesy of Jeff Morrison) Our ...

Newer airports, wars, bad design, and financial miscalculations are some of the reasons we have so many abandoned airports around the world. They sit empty, their runways cracked, and terminals ...

Across the United States, hundreds of airports once echoed with the sounds of jet engines, rushing passengers, and the excitement of takeoffs. Today, many of those same airfields sit eerily silent, ...

Our Aug. 10 column, “What happened to Haile Field, a lost Austin airport north of Hyde Park?” generated considerable reader interest. Taken from American-Statesman articles from the 1930s through the ...