P R E S C O T T R E G I O N A L A I R P O R T
ERNEST A. LOVE FIELD
Prescott, Arizona
1926-2026
1 0 0 Y e a r s
– Arizona's Oldest Airport –
A Centennial History Project
by David M. DuPree
On July 4, 2026, America celebrated its 250th birthday. On that same day, Prescott's Ernest A. Love Field marked
its first century – one hundred years of flying at "the airport beyond the Dells."
Love Field is the oldest airport in Arizona. It is also the only extant Arizona airport built before the airport-building frenzy that followed Charles Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight. This centennial project is dedicated to the hundreds of "air-minded" people who played a role in establishing the field and, over time, building it into one of the finest airports in the West.
● PART 3 1940s & 1950s
● PART 4 1960s & 1970s
Chronological Index of Newspaper
and Periodical References
MONOGRAPHS
BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES
Airport Directory Listings
Airport Operators through the 1970s
Scheduled Airline Service:
Airport Land Acquisition Notes (1920s-1940s)
Buildings, Structures and Historic Preservation
Quonset Huts of Prescott
Airport Restaurants
Airport Firefighting
Antelope Hills (golf courses and subdivisions)
BOARDMAN, Russell N.
GARRISON, Ersel
HAUSLER, Robert W. "Bob"
HIGHTOWER, William M. "Bill"
MacCURDY, Grant W.
MORRISON, James M. "Jim" and Gladys M.
MURPHY, Floyd
PRICE, Louis B. (and the flying Price Family)
RAWLINS, Marcus E.
SHAKE, Kenneth "Ken"
WEDDINGTON, Brig. Gen. Leonard D.
1980s
2000 >
(and Project Notes)
Prelude
Prescott Builds an Airport
WWII and Postwar
Into the Jet Age
Banner photo: Gravity-flow "visible" fuel pump in operation at Ernest A. Love Field, circa mid-1930s (see Part 2, page 54). (Sharlot Hall Museum Library & Archives)