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Looking Back at the Overnight Destruction of Meigs Field

Summary by Flying
It takes years to build an airport, at least 30 days to get permission from the FAA to legally shut it down—a situation that’s unlikely as the agency is in the business of protecting aviation—and just a few hours to destroy it. These are lessons learned on March 30,  2003, when the aviation world woke up to learn that Merrill C. Meigs Field (formerly KCGX) in Chicago had been destroyed overnight.  It wasn’t an act of nature. It was done on order…
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Flying broke the news in on Monday, March 30, 2026.
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