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LOUIS R. INWOOD
Director of Aviation

WALTER M. PHILLIPS
Director of Commerce

PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
SITE OF THE 1955 NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW

PHILADELPHIA'S great International Airport moved
about a mile less than two years ago and, in the simple
movement, gained millions of miles in cargo and passenger business.
Today the port is one of the world's largest air, rail and 
marine terminals. passenger travel last year topped
1,000,000 for the first time in history. Freight and cargo
shipments, including mail, totaled 74-million pounds.
The International Airport, and the city's other flight
terminal, North Philadelphia Airport, represent a $50,000,000
investment with another $12,000,000 already ear-marked
over the next five years.
The magnificent terminal building at International was
opened late in 1953, costing $15,000,000.
The original site, on Hog Island Shipyard, where the 
National Aircraft Show is now being held, consisted of
only 500 acres in 1940 and the longest of four runways 
was only a mile. The new site embraces 2500-acres and 
the main takeoff strip projects 7,300-feet with a width of 
200-feet.
Two other runways, each 150 feet wide, measure mor
than a mile in length. The fourth strip, for light planes
(except in emergencies) measure three quarters of a mile.
Walter M. Phillips, director of Commerce for the City
of Philadelphia, is of the opinion that the current layout
is more than adequate to handle prospective as well as 
present airline users.
Mr. Phillips and Louis R. Inwood, his director of 
Aviation, point our that International Airport has three
rare advantages—found nowhere else in this country:
(1) Its proximity to center-city and accessibility to rail
and water transport facilities.
(2) Its freedom from obstruction even though the
port is less than 15 minutes from the heart of Philadelphia.
(3) Its location in an uninhabited area, free of noise
and other problems which plague development programs
in other large urban centers.
Today no fewer than 10-schedule airlines fly in and
out of International Airport with TWA and Pan-American
conducting regularly schedule trans-Atlantic flights.
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A fleet of official cars consisting of 1955 Oldsmobiles furnished by
Oldsmobile Dealers plus these Dodges, provided by Dodge Div.,
Chrysler Motor Corp., are seen on the highways of Pennsylvania and
adjacent states. Shown with the cars are the field representatives of
the 1955 National Aircraft Show. In addition to their use on the highways,
these cars will be used by officials of the Contest Committee at
the airport, doing constant field service necessary to the conduct of
the Show. Hovering over is a Piasecki H21B USAF "Work Horse".
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW 55