Airport celebrates nine decades in Butler County, public invited
PENN TWP — The public is invited to a huge birthday party on Saturday, and they should be just plane excited about it.
The Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport on Airport Road will celebrate its 90th birthday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 28, which is the exact date of the airport’s grand opening in 1929.
“The event will give all Butler County residents the opportunity to take off and land on the same runway used by Amelia Earhart decades ago,” said a news release from the Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport Authority.
Among the antique aircraft on display will be the nationally renowned 1939 Spartan Executive owned by Jim Savage and housed at the Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport.
Ike Kelly, the current airport manager, said he especially welcomes county residents who have no connection to or have ever visited the airport.
“When people come down here who have never been here before, they say, ‘I never realized it was this big,’” Kelly said.
More information on the event is available at butlercountyairport.org.
This is an excerpt, read the full article in Friday's Butler Eagle.
