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Ford Airport Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ.

Archival 

• Acc. 413 Ford Aviation Activities Records Subseries 
  • box 2 Ford airport  
                Air Mail reports 
               Daily weather maps, 1927 
               Flight delays 
               General, 1928, 1929, 1930
  • box 3 Ford Airport - flight reports, 1926
     
• Acc. 18 Stout Metal Airplane Company Records 
  • box 11 Brochure -Welcome To Ford Airport 
  • box 54 Dept of Commerce· Ford Airport 
  • box 147 Ford Airport Register - Oct '27 through Jul '36 
  • box 148-149 Ford Airport Manager Subject File· 1925 - 1933 
  • box 163 Airport Costs 1931 
  • Loose Ford Airport Log Books Oct 1941 - Jun 1947 (Three Volumes) 
     
• Acc. 1392 Ford Airport Logs 
  • box 1 Arrival and Departure Logbooks, 1941-1947 
     
• Acc. 1120 Field Survey Notebooks Series 
  • box 1 Dearborn Plant, Airport, and Radio Station, 1925-1927 
              Ford Airport Hanger and Runway, 1928-1930 
  • box 5 Airport Buildings and Hangars, 1920-1931 (8 volumes) 
     
• Acc. 408 Plant Engineering Department Floor Space Records 
  • box 4 Layouts; Ford Airport 
     
• Acc. 1036 Construction Department Records Series 
  • Carton 15 Includes records relating to construction, alterations, etc., of the Ford Airport, Airplane
                        Factory, Airplane Hanger and mooring mast 
     
• Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office papers 
  • box 1438 Dearborn Airport - General 
  • box 1582 Dearborn Airport F. Campsall, 1932-1933 (includes Byrd Antarctic Plane) 
  • box 2287 Airport Wind Tunnel 
     
• Acc. 1 Fair Lane Papers 
  • box 172 Ford Airport, correspondence and printed materials, 1926, and undated 
     
• Acc. 6 Edsel B Ford Office papers 
  • box 72 MA (includes W.B. Mayo memo requesting Ford airport be open on Sundays) 
  • box 97 Detroit (Detroit Edison Company re: lighting on Airport Drive) 
     
• Acc. 951 Ford Motor Company Non-Serial Publications Collection 
  • box 52 A Visit to the Ford Airport, 1928 
     
• Acc. 536 Public Relations Research Library Press Releases  
  • box 133 Ford Airport (4 folders) 
  • box 167 Ford Airport (1 folder) 
     
• Acc. E.I. 235 Public Relations Records 
  • box 11 Henry Ford Centennial; Ford Airport Historical Marker, 1963 
     
• Acc. 94 Dearborn Engineering Laboratory Records 
  • box 130 Ford Airport - gasoline report, 1925 
                  Ford Airport, 1925 
     
• Engineering and Aperture Cards 
  • drawer 3 Ford Airport 
     
• General Postcard Collections 
  • box 1 Size J. Airports 
  • box 6 Size J. Industry-Automobiles-Ford Motor Co.-Buildings-MI-Dearborn-Electrical Engineering 
     
• Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File 
  • box 15 Dearborn – Ford Airport (1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931,1940-1949) 
  • box 16 Ford Airport
                   Dedication 
                   Radio Beacon 
                   Signs 
                   Terminal 
                   Visitors
     

Ford News 

• See Ford Airport (Dearborn, MI) 

Rouge News 

• Ford Airport Lonely Survivor (Dirigible mooring mast dismantling), 1(8N) Nov '46:8:3-5 
• Ford Airport Closes Field after 22 Years, 2(23) Nov 8 '47:4:1 

Oral Histories 

• 65_86 Glen Hoppin 
• 65_194 William Stout 
• 65_83 Harold Hicks 
• 65_62 Al Esper 
• 65_109 E.G. Liebold (pt.II)

Vertical File 

• Airports - Michigan - Dearborn (Ford) 
     General  
     Dirigible Mooring Mast 

Books  

• Henry Ford's Airport, and Other Aviation Interests 1909-1954. Timothy J. O'Callaghan 
     387.73 F699 O15 1993 
• The Aviation Legacy of Henry and Edsel Ford. Timothy J. O'Callaghan 
     387.73 O15 2000