Massey Aerodrome is a Public Use airport with a 3000’ x 100’ grass runway dedicated to the preservation of Grassroots Aviation. Opposing the national trend of airport closings, Massey is a “new” public use airport. It was created from farmland in 2001 by 4 pilots with a love of aviation - strictly as a hobby. One of the founders had always had a dream of owning his own airport so he and 3 like-minded pilots joined together to buy a 93 acre farm in Kent Co., Maryland. They got the permits and registrations from the FAA, excavated and seeded the runways, converted the grain storage barns into hangers and have been restoring planes and holding Fly-ins ever since. In 2015, five new partners joined the one remaining original partner to assure the continuing success of Massey. At Massey Aerodrome, there is an Air Museum, a static DC-3 that you can enter, 23 flying airplanes, 11 gliders, a rotating beacon tower, a working windmill with cypress wood tank inside the tower and an EAA Chapter. SEE Massey Air Museum for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_Air_Museum Static Displays: N18111 1937 Douglas DC-3A United Airlines. Painted by the restaurant as a C-47 but never Impressed into service.. Our airplane was used in the 1938 movie “Test Pilot” starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy and featuring Lionel Barrymore. Life-Size, Fiberglass Scale Model Corsair on pedestal: F4U-1D Corsair, painted as F4U-5 #53 flown by Alberto H. Santa Maria. The airport is the home to the Massey Air Museum.
INSIDE THE MUSEUM
Replica 1911 Wright glider made by Jimmy Dayton for the Sport of Soaring’s 100th Anniversary of Orville Wright setting the World Soaring Record of 9 minutes, 45 seconds at Kitty Hawk, NC on Oct. 24, 1911. This record stood for 10 years until broken by the Germans in 1921. The U. S. record for soaring was not officially broken until 1929. N738 1946 Ercoupe 415-C, s/n 1788. Eng: 75 HP Cont. C85. Donated by John Chirtea, Milton, DE ENGINES ON DISPLAY: 1710 hp, 14 cylinder, Wright R-2600 Radial as used on the B-25 bomber and B-314 Boeing Clipper. 160 hp, Kinner 5 cylinder Radial engine 37 hp Continental A-40 4 cylinder flat head engine 2550 rpm, wt. 144 lb. 65 hp Lycoming O-145-B2 4 cylinder horizontally opposed engine. 2300 rpm, weight 165.5 lb.. Cut-away Engine - Spanish Elizalde Tigre IVB four-cylinder inverted air-cooled engine. Used in C.A.S.A. 1.131E.
