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Louisville s Bowman Field is Kentucky s oldest continuously operating airport and one of the oldest in the United States Abram Hite Bowman Robert Bob Gast and Wallace Sidney Park are considered the founders of Bowman Field which dates to 1920 John Bennett Frank Holzaphel Dick Mulloy and Wil Paris were among those who made the airport a success Bowman Field was the landing place of Charles Lindbergh s Spirit of St Louis in 1927 It also hosted aviatrix Ruth Nichols who in 1931 ended a record setting flight when her airplane caught fire During World War II the airfield was repurposed as the Bowman Army Airbase and a training facility for flight nurses In 1957 Bowman Field was the nation s busiest local traffic airport As we approach the airfield s centennial the Bowman Field Administration Building built in 1929 has been hardly touched by the hands of time Bowman Field is the airport where the past meets the future Bowman Field Images of Aviation