Sutherland Avenue McGhee Tyson Airport

Sutherland Avenue McGhee Tyson Airport is a Tennessee historical marker in Knox County.

200 block of Tobler just off Sutherland Tyson Airport Ave.

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In 1927, Walter Self opened the Sutherland Avenue Airfield, Knoxville's first airport. The city brought the 59-acre site in 1929 and renamed it McGhee Tyson Airport, the city's first municipal airport. It bears the name of Lt. J.G. Charles McGhee Tyson, killed in action in a flight over the North Sea in World War I. After it became insufficient for larger planes and increased traffic, officials relocated the airport to Blount County in 1937.

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1886 · Knoxville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1894 · Knoxville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Knoxville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1926 · Proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina-Tennessee / engraved and… (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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Sutherland Avenue McGhee Tyson Airport

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