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Teterboro Airport:  Meet the Fokkers, the World’s Largest Passenger Airplanes 

By Portfolio Editor Roz Hamlett The Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America built the Fokker F-32 in 1929 in their Teterboro, N.J. factory.  It was the first four-engine commercial aircraft built in America and the largest land plane in the world.  … Continue reading

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Newark Airport’s Administration Building: The Gatsby of Airport Terminals

By Cheryl Albiez, Senior Public Information Officer Anyone familiar with The Great Gatsby knows that author F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing during an era of unprecedented societal change, the “Roaring Twenties.” The Administration Building of Newark Liberty International Airport, which … Continue reading

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LaGuardia Airport history: Bessie Coleman, the first African-American to fly airplanes

By Roz Hamlett, Portfolio Editor In the same year that Amelia Earhart took her first flying lesson – 1921 – Bessie Coleman received her pilot’s license, making her the first African-American licensed pilot in the world.  The following year, her … Continue reading

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