Better known as Teterboro Airport today, this airfield started its life as New Jersey Airport and is the oldest operational airport in the New York City area. The first plane took off from the present airport site in 1919 – its unpaved runway seen here in an image captured from a plane in 1926. Amelia Earhart flew to this airport to prepare for her solo transatlantic flight in 1932, while the then-world's biggest passenger plane, the F-32, was built here in 1930.

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Fascinating images of America’s earliest airports