ERIE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Retired Pennsylvania State Police Officer
In the early 1920's Erie's Griswold started a small airfield at the intersection of West Lake Road and Asbury Road. In 1925 the US Department of Commerce, Airways Section, Office of the Chief of Air Services, Washington, D.C. licensed the Griswold Landing Field as a Commercial Airport under the name of Great Lakes Airways, Inc., PA. That was eight years before the establishment of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), the forerunner of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The airport was among the earliest in the nation to be licensed as a commercial airport. The Airport today holds an official copy of the Aeronautical Bulletin detailing the information on Griswold Landing Field.