Hadley Field Explained
Hadley Field was an airport in South Plainfield, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It contained the Nike Missile Battery NY-65 and was used as a landing site for some of the nation's early air mail service.[1] The site has since been redeveloped into a strip mall and is currently owned by National Realty & Development Corp.[2]
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Further reading
- Book: Bond, Gordon. North Jersey Legacies. 2012. The History Press. 978-1-60949-556-5.
- Book: Holden, Henry M.. Newark Airport. 2009. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-6522-4.
- Book: Kane, Joseph Nathan . 1997 . Famous First Facts, Fifth Edition . . 0-8242-0930-3 . Item 6021, page 433 . The first airmail long-distance night service was established on July 1, 1925, from New York City to Chicago, IL, over a 774-mile course. The first plane, from Hadley Field, New Brunswick, NJ (in the metropolitan New York area), was piloted by Dean C. Smith. It was followed by a second plane piloted by J.D. Hill. . registration .
- Book: Mappen. Marc . Encyclopedia of New Jersey. 2004. Rutgers University Press. 978-0-8135-3325-4. On July 1, 1925, overnight airmail was flown from Hadley for the first time when pilot Dean C. Smith took off with eighty-seven pounds of mail..
- Book: Nielson, Dale. U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918–1927 . 1962. Air Mail Pioneers.
- Book: Smith, Dean C. . By the Seat of My Pants. 2000. B.D. King Press. 978-0-9716871-4-1.
- Book: Veit, Richard F. . South Plainfield. 2002. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-1111-5. Pilot Dean C. Smith took off from Hadley Field in a DH-4 on the first leg of the run. His destination was Cleveland, where the mail would be transferred to another flight. The flight took place on July 1, 1925. Over 15,000 people came to witness the event..
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Notes and References
- http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/publicat/people.pdf#page=12 People - The Transportation Connection: A Brief History of the NJDOT
- https://www.nrdc.com/properties/retail/hadley-center Hadley Center
