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QUARTZ HILL, from 8
Airport and I were on bor- rowed time.”
The little Airport that could — the Airport that defined and gave a name to a community, the Airport that trained more than 1,000 pilots and helped to license up to 500 of them — was no more. The free- dom of flying and to land and take off from a field with no control tower, with just you, the pilot, making all the deci- sions, is what the freedom of flying was all about back in those days. It made the small- town airport experience truly special for all of those that enjoyed that sense of freedom and is missed even today.
Before the land was given over to houses, it was home to joggers and horses and an oc- casional remote-control plane. Nowadays, many of us that drive the curvy road around the Airport’s name sake, Quartz Hill Mountain, look over at a tract of houses and remember a time not so long ago, when the word “freedom” and the good life that went with it were alive and well, and served up on two runways and a small cafe at a place called Quartz Hill Air- port. Oh, how we miss it so!
Courtesy photograph
Every Easter, for as long as Doc owned the airport, Sunrise Services would be conducted at a cross in front of the Cafe, followed by breakfast. More than 100 people would gather each year. Doc was a very religious man and friend to all.
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