which passed into history in the 1930's
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/PA/Airfields_PA_SW.htm#rodgers
Yes if you drive thru there now hard to believe an airfield even existed there but a family I knew
The Novasols Nick,Hilda and there daughter Barbra all knew it existed there it was just a short peaceful walk from there property where there descendants where original homesteaders and farmers
They talked about sitting and watching the planes while having a Sunday picnic all those years ago .The property is now developed with homes just like Rodgers was.
The Novasol property itself was once used by the Pittsburgh to Philadelphia canal company to keep and maintain its heard of donkeys .
Rodgers was one of the first aviation fields in Western Pa. but because it did not properly maintain its grass runways and because planes kept getting bigger and needed more run way it fell into irrelevance as aviation evolved .
However there is one noteworthy event in history that happened here and thats the day Emilia Earhart crashed her plane after successfully landing and then hitting one of those ruts in the field on one of her many plane trips before vanishing forever.
While we know what happened in Pittsburgh we still do not know what happened to Emelia after she took off on a round the world flight and never returned. Thou researchers apear to be getting closer to the answer.
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