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   Post on Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields website in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar

   By dholly, posted 2 Apr 2013

   http://www.airfields-freeman.com/
    
    
   Freeman got the idea for his Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields website when technology finally caught up to his own curiosity. "In the late 1990s, I realized that the availability of aerial photos over the web gave me the ability to examine what remained at the locations of abandoned airfields sometimes depicted on aeronautical charts," he said. "I typically look through my archival material, and do Google searches to accumulate information for the starting point for a new write-up. Once it is posted, the write-up typically 'snowballs' as readers send in more material."
    
   
    
   An August 1964 photo by Jim Allen of the T-Bird Airpark
   maintenance hangar, with a variety of general aviation aircraft.  
   One of those "write-ups" was for Willamette Airpark / T-Bird Airport, a long-lost airfield in Eugene, OR. I discovered this old field on Freeman's site, and sure enough, when I returned to the location just 2NM from my home, you can still see the remnants of Runway 12/30. Here's some excerpts from Freeman and his collaborators after doing some sleuthing on this field: