Boardman Airport , is a public airport

Airport

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 located four miles (6.4 km) southwest of the city of Boardman

Boardman, Oregon

Boardman is a city in Morrow County, Oregon, United States on the Columbia River and Interstate 84. As of the 2010 census the population was 3,220. It is part of the Pendleton–Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

 in Morrow County

Morrow County, Oregon

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, Oregon

Oregon

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, USA

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History

The airport was built by the United States Army Air Force about 1942, and was known as Boardman Flight Strip. It was an emergency landing airfield for military aircraft on training flights. It was closed after World War II

World War II

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, and was turned over for local government use by the War Assets Administration (WAA).

See also

• Lexington Airport
  Lexington Airport (Oregon)
  Lexington Airport , is a public airport located one mile north of Lexington in Morrow County, Oregon, USA.-External links:*...