Airport

Located on the absolutely flat floodplain of the Rock River, this airport was first known as Franing Field in the 1920s. In 1926 both airmail and commercial passenger flights were initiated and in 1927 Charles Lindbergh stopped by. In what is said to have been the largest WPA project in Illinois, the airport was expanded in the mid 1930s, after which it became the Moline Municipal Airport. In 1947 was taken over by the newly created Quad City Metropolitan Airport Authority, a Rock Island County entity. Since then it has been the Quad City [International] Airport.

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