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Location DB > United States > Massachusetts > Leicester > Leicester Airport
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Leicester Airport
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created by Mike Dijital on 9/26/2015 4:48 PM
last modified by Emperor Wang on 8/29/2023 8:23 PM
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Type: Outdoors
Status: Abandoned
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Leicester, Massachusetts
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    Leicester Airport, Leicester, MA

    42.28 North / 71.91 West (West-Southwest of Boston, MA)

    Leicester Airport, as depicted on the 1944 Boston Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). Photo of the airport while open has not been located. This abandoned airfield is located only one mile west-northwest of the present-day Worchester Airport. The date of construction of Leicester Airport is unknown. It was apparently built at some point between 1937-44, as it was not listed in The Airport Directory Company's 1937 Airports Directory (courtesy of Bob Rambo). The earliest depiction of Leicester Airport which has been located was on the 1944 Boston Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy), which depicted Leicester as a commercial or municipal airport.

    Leicester Airport was depicted on the 1950 USGS topo map, but it was unlabeled. The two runways were depicted, as well as the single hangar/office at the northwest corner of the field. Paul Stakun recalled, "I was born & raised in Leicester and remember the airport very well. When I was a kid in the 1950s, there were lots of former WWII pilots who flew out of there and there was a lot of flight instruction going on. I remember many of the old aircraft that flew out of Leicester including Howard DGAs, Timm N2T, Stinson Reliants, Voyagers, as well as the multitude of J3s, Aeronca Champs, Cessna 140s. My interest and subsequent career in aerospace was born there."

    The 1959 Boston Local Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy) depicted Leicester as a public-use airport with a 2,200' hard-surface runway. The status of Leicester Airport apparently changed from a public-use field to a private field at some point between 1959-62, as it was labeled "Leicester (Pvt)" on the 1962 Albany Sectional Chart (courtesy of Mike Keefe) & subsequent charts. Leicester Airport was described in the 1962 AOPA Airport Directory as having two bituminous runways: 2,200' Runway 13/31 & 1,550' Runway 18/36. The operator was listed as Earl Howland.

    By 1965, Leicester Airport had apparently started to deteriorate, as the remarks in the Aerodromes table on the 1965 Boston Sectional Chart said "Private. Pavement Broken & Cracked." The field was described as having two runways, with the primary being an 1,800' asphalt runway.

    Leicester Airport was still depicted on the 1968 Boston Sectional Chart. Leicester Airport was apparently closed at some point between 1968-70, as it was not depicted at all on the 1970 USGS topo map, and it was not listed among active airfields in the 1976 AOPA Airport Directory. It was depicted on the 1991 USGS topo map, labeled "Airfield (Abandoned)". According to sailplane pilot Fred Looft, "It has been abandoned for as long as I can remember (which is not that long, 1980s for sure), and I'm told that it was abandoned about the time Worcester was created. It used to have a great dance club I'm told after it closed, and was used for model flying, etc."
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