gr00260.xml Metropolitan Airports Commission An Inventory of Its Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul, MN.

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Finding aid encoded by Cheri Thies and Meagan Kellom, April 2011. Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission. Subject files. 1918-1996 (bulk 1940-1965). Materials in English. Subject files documenting all aspects of the operation and administration of the Metropolitan Airports Commission, including airport siting materials (1968-1971), legislative files (1943-1971), leases (1943-1956), Metropolitan Aircraft Sound Abatement Council minutes (1969-1973), programs for action (1948-1965), resolutions (1948-1966), legal opinions (1943-1966), ordinances (1947-1992), resumes of activities (1974-1980), and project status reports (1960-1964). 8.7 cu. ft. (9 boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The files also cover such topics as accidents, airline insurance, personnel, budget, planning, equipment, consultants, air traffic control, control towers, history, land acquisition, noise abatement, federal regulations, runways, and committees, and relations with Oppenheimer, Hodgson, Brown, Donnelly & Baer; Aviation Services Company; the Civil Aeronautics Administration; DePonti Aviation Company, inc.; Federal Communications Commission; Minneapolis and St. Paul Chamber of Commerces' aviation committees; Minnesota Aeronautics Department; St. Paul Port Authority; War Assets Administration; and numerous airlines, including Braniff, Capital, American, Eastern, Mid-Continent, Delta, Midwest, North Central, Northwest, Ozark, Trans-Canada, United, and Western.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Aircraft accidents -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airlines -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airlines -- Insurance -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airport authorities -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airport buildings -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airport control towers -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airport noise -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airports -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area -- Employees. Airports -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area -- Equipment and supplies. Airports -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area -- Finance. Airports -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airports -- Location -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Airports -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area -- Management. Airports -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area -- Planning. Airports -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area -- Traffic control. Air traffic control -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Air traffic rules -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Runways (Aeronautics) -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Transportation consultants -- Minnesota -- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Organizations: American Airlines, inc. Aviation Services Company. Braniff Airways. Capital Airlines. Delta Air Lines. DePonti Aviation Company, inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.). Eastern Air Lines, inc. Metropolitan Aircraft Sound Abatement Council. Mid-Continent Airlines. Mid-West Airlines, Inc. Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. Aviation Committee. Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission -- History. Minnesota. Department of Aeronautics. North Central Airlines. Northwest Airlines, inc. Oppenheimer, Hodgson, Brown, Donnelly & Baer. Ozark Air Lines. Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul. Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce. Aviation Committee. Trans-Canada Airlines. United Airlines. United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration. United States. Federal Communications Commission. United States. War Assets Administration. Western Airlines. Document Types: Ordinances. Resolutions. Leases. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission. Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 982-80; 998-107; 2002-30; 2004-28; 2007-59; 2010-14

Processing Information:

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 002892533

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Set 1: 103.K.12.8F Accidents, 1953-1966. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association [AOPA], 1963-1966. Air Freight (air cargo), 1945-1950. Airline insurance policies, Tele-Trip Company, 1951-1953. Airline insurance policies, combined companies, 1953-1954. Airline Negotiating Committee, 1964-1966. Airlines strike, 1966. Airlines, miscellaneous, 1961-1965. Airport fund, maintenance statement, July-August 1944. Airport Operators Council [AOC], 1950-1953. Airport Operators Council [AOC] FAAP Conference, 1960. Airport siting materials, 1968-1971. 6 folders.

Reports, studies, and statements to the commission regarding the adequacy of the Wold-Chamberlain [Minneapolis-St. Paul International] Airport and the advisability of selecting a new airport site in the metropolitan area (specifically, Ham Lake in Anoka County).

Airport spacing, 1944-1945, 1949. Airport State Bank (metropolitan), 1958. Airport Use panel data, 1958-1961. Airports, miscellaneous, 1961-1966. Airways Engineering Consultants, Inc., 1945-1946. American Airlines, 1961-1966. American Aviation Associates, Inc., 1944-1954. American Aviation Corporation, 1948-1951. Amusement machines, 1947-1956. Annual report preparation, 1972, 1974. 2 folders. Associated Aviation Underwriters, 1947-1955. Attorneys-at-Law: Oppenheimer, Hodgson, Brown, Donnelly and Baer: Correspondence, 1944-1965. 3 folders. Retainer information, 1944-1960. 103.K.12.9B Aviation Services Company, 1944-1954. 2 folders. Baseball stadium, 1953-1954. Braniff International Airways, 1946-1953. Buckley, James C., Inc., Terminal and Transportation Consultants, 1951-1953. Budget correspondence, 1944-1946. Budget, Minneapolis Municipal Airport (Wold-Chamberlain Field), 1943-1945. Capital Airlines (Pennsylvania-Central Airlines), 1944-1961. 2 folders. Citizens Air Safety League, 1956. Civil Aeronautics Administration [CAA]: Correspondence, 1943-1958. 3 folders. Continental Air Command Survey, 1950-1951. Reduction of expenses, 1944-1945. VOR omni-range location, 1953. Civilian Production Administration [CPA], 1946-1951. Collins, Steven, Administrative Aide, Environmental Affairs Department, 1974-1975. Commissioners, 1996.

Business addresses and phone numbers.

Committees: Airline Building Committee, 1952. Area Planning Committee, 1944-1957, 1962. 2 folders. Commission Policy Committee, 1948. Construction, Improvements, Equipment Committee, 1944-1962. Emergency Committee on Safety, 1948. Flying Cloud Airport Air Show Advisory Committee, 1965. Hotel-Motel Committee, 1962. Lease Committee, 1944-1964. 2 folders. Personnel Committee, 1949-1966. 2 folders. Taxicab Committee, 1960-1962. Congress-Senate correspondence, 1961-1962. Construction program, 1965. Consultants: Aviation: 1953-1954. Miscellaneous aviation consultants soliciting work on survey of airline service proposed by MAC, 1947-1951. Aviation consultants solicited for Wold, 1955. Miscellaneous consultants solicited for Wold-Chamberlain Field building expansion, 1955-1960. 103.K.12.10F Consultants: Leigh Fisher and Associates, 1945-1959. Control towers, 1944-1959. Delta Airlines, 1960-1964. DePonti Aviation Company, inc., 1944-1966. 4 folders.

Lease information.

Disaster Control Plan, 1962. Downtown St. Paul, Inc., Executive Secretary Paul K. Meyers, 1956. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., 1945-1965. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., printed schedules, 1960-1962. Federal Aid Airport Program, 1955. Federal Aviation Agency, 1960-1966. Federal Communications Commission, 1945-1965. Federal funds received by MAC, 1950-1961. Federal ruling in Cedarhurst case, 1955. Fiscal goals and policies, circa 1981. Flight Safety Foundation, Inc., 1949-1952. General aviation history in Minnesota graphs, 1918-1943. Glumack, Raymond G., MAC Chairman, 1984-1986. Ham Lake Site hearing: Graphs used, April 22, 1968. Hammond, Larry, Wold-Chamberlain Field Director, 1952-1957. Hanson’s Flying Service, Anoka, Minnesota, circa 1934.

Souvenir ticket.

Heliport planning, 1957-1958. Hennepin County, Minnesota, 1951-1964. Insurance meeting, May 22, 1962. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc., 1979. Janes, Philip H., MAC Director of Operations, 1964-1966. Jets, 1963. Land acquisition, 1946-1956. Land reimbursement, 1949-1953. Leases, 1943-1956. 2 folders. Legislative files, 1943-1971.

Chronological files regarding the Commission’s legislative relations and initiatives, particularly aviation issues in the metropolitan area and state-wide.

Legislative Advisory Committee, 1944-1958. 3 folders. Lea-Bailey Bill, Federal Airport Legislation, 1943-1946. 2 folders. 103.K.12.11B McCarren Bill, 1944-1945. Legislation: Senator Joseph H. Ball, 1948. Legislation: Congressional, 1948-1950. State Taxation of Aviation Gasoline with Special Reference to Minnesota, 1950. Legislative and Little Hoover: Editorials, 1951. Legislation: Abandoned Aircraft, 1951. General Legislative Issues, 1951-1953. Aviation Interim Report (Proposed), 1952. HF 534: MAC Bill to Increase Bonded Indebtedness, 1953. HF 1526/SF 1534: Unorganized Territory Bill, 1953. HF 1116: Re-taxing Airline Companies, 1953. SF 890: Creation of Metropolitan Planning and Development Commission, 1953. Opinions: MAC Powers and Possible Amendments to MAC Law (53rd Session), 1953. HF 1094/SF 883: Airports Appropriating Money from Minnesota Aero Fund for Acquisition and Establishment of an Airport, 1953. SF 824: Helicopter Transportation of Mail from Wold-Chamberlain Field to Twin Cities Post Offices, 1953. HF 1117/ SF 687: Lauerman Bill for Funds for State Airports, 1953. SF 653: Hiring of Snow Plow Helpers, 1953. HF 269: Parking and Parking Meters, 1953. HF 146/SF 70: Aircraft Liability Insurance, 1953. Legislature Bills Introduced: HF 601 and SF 454 Liquor Bill, 1955. Correspondence between Robert Aldrich and Minnesota Senators/Representatives, 1955-1956. HF 618: Bill on Act Relating to MAC Providing an Appeal to District Court from an Order of the MAC, 1955. HF 1614/SF 1565: Retirement Allowances Regardless of Veterans Preference Act, 1955. Legislative Session, 1955. HF 694/SF 238: Towers, 1955. HF 1472/SF 1244: Airport on North Shore of Lake Superior (Bonds), 1955. HF 827/SF 1119: Commission to Study Laws Pertaining to Aircraft, 1955. Legislation, 1957. Minnesota Air National Guard - Holman Field Use Agreement, 1958. Federal Aid to Airports Bill, HR 1011, 1959. Legislation, Minnesota, 1961. MAC Proposed Legislation, 1963. Proposed Legislation, 1963. Master Plan Report, 1967. Memos to 1967 Legislature, March–May 1967. Legislation, Minnesota, 1967. Legislation, 1971. Letters in support of MAC’s independence, April-May 1971. Low flying, 1960-1962. Metropolitan Aircraft Sound Abatement Council minutes, 1969-1973. 3 folders.

Minutes of group established to consider the causes and magnitude of problems connected with aircraft noise, to review complaints about aircraft noise from affected parties, and to study and discuss procedural changes in airport operations and flight procedures and schedules that might ameliorate the problems. Although this council concerned itself with operations at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, it does not appear to have been a sub-unit of the Metropolitan Airports Commission. It was composed of representatives of communities affected by airport operations, airlines and other users of the airport, the state legislature, the MAC, and the general public. It does not appear to have been created under any statutory authority.

Metropolitan Airport Fund, 1944-1948. Metropolitan Council Takeover of MAC Proposal, 1973-1974. Metropolitan Planning Commission, 1957-1966. Metropolitan Transit Commission, 1966. Mid-Continent Airlines, Inc.: Correspondence, 1944-1952. 2 folders. Annual report, 1945. Loading manifests, Douglas DC-3/Lockheed Lodestar, 1946. Midwest Airlines, Inc., 1949-1952. 103.K.12.12F Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, 1944-1959. Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee, 1960-1966. 2 folders. Minneapolis, City of, 1944-1965. 3 folders. Minneapolis Gas Co., 1958-1959. Minneapolis Traffic Association, 1947-1949. Minnesota Aeronautical Advisory Council, 1953-1955. Minnesota Air National Guard, 1957-1958. Minnesota Aviation Research Committee, 1951-1952. Minnesota Aviation Trade Association [MATA], 1946-1948. Minnesota, Congressional Delegation meeting, August 26, 1952. Minnesota Department of Aeronautics: Correspondence, 1944-1956. 3 folders. Routes and Services Committee, 1955. Rules and miscellaneous publications, 1938-1953. Seaplane operations, 1955. State sketches of local airports, 1950s. Minnesota FWD Co., Inc., 1946-1947.

Concerning snow removal equipment.

Minnesota State Bar Association, Aeronautical Law Committee, 1946-1952. Minnesota State Highway Department, 1945-1962. Minnesota, State of, 1946-1965. Minnesota, State of: Public Examiner’s Office, Acquisition of Flying Cloud Airport, 1948-1949. 103.K.12.13B Minnesota State Treasurer: Julius A. Schmahl and Val Bjornson, 1946-1960. Minnesota Tax Legislative Research Committee, 1950. Minnesota, University of, 1951-1959. New office building, MAC, 1965-1966. Noise abatement, 1961-1966. Northern States Power, 1959. North Central Airlines (formerly Wisconsin Central Airlines), 1951-1965. 3 folders. Northwest Airlines, Inc.: Accidents, 1950-1952. Arbitration Communication on the Modification Center lease at Holman Field, 1949-1950. Correspondence, 1944-1965. 3 folders. Hangars, Wold-Chamberlain Field, 1950-1957. Hedberg Freidheim hangar, 1945-1952. Inside Route to Alaska, 1954. Lawsuit v MAC on Taxes, 1945. London route, circa 1980. Main Base Project, 1952-1956. Maintenance base, 1991. Protests to serving of liquor by stewardesses, 1953. Schedule, 1930s. Use fees, 1946-1952. Olson, Arlis, MAC Engineering Aide, 1972-1973. Opinions, legal, 1943-1966. 6 folders.

Correspondence, legal documents, and opinions from the Attorney General Office and private counsel; covering all aspects of MAC responsibilities.

Ordinance File No. 1: Resolution 69 and 123, 1948-1951. Ordinances: Filed with Secretary of State, 1947-1952. Correspondence, 1948-1957. 3 folders. Nos. 6-78, 1952-1992.

Incomplete.

No. 10, 1957. No. 11, adopted September 16, 1957. Nos. 12-13, 1959-1966. 103.K.12.14F Ozark Airlines, 1957-1961. Paul, Frederick T., MAC Project Engineer, 1949-1950. Personnel matter: Cooks and Waiters Union, 1952-1953. Policy, General, of MAC, 1948-1962. Policy on airport use by commercial operators excluding air carriers, 1957. Port Authority of New York, 1964. President’s and Congressional Air Policy, 1950-1953. 2 folders. Priorities, 1951. Programs for Action, 1948-1965. Pure Oil Company, 1945-1954. Ramsey, County of, 1948-1952. Ration Board, War Price and, 1944-1945. Regional Plan for Airports, 1944-1948. Regional Plan submitted to Civil Aeronautics Administration, October 1946. Resolutions: Nos. 48-454, 1948-1960. 2 folders. Nos. 464-516, 1960-1961. Nos. 521-664, 1962-1966. Resumes of activities, 1974-1980. 8 folders.

July 1974-January 1975, November-December 1975, May 1977, April-June 1979, October 1979-June 1980.

Rochester, Minnesota Municipal Airport dedication program, August 19, 1961. Runway lighting, 1950. Runways, 1948-1950. Runways: Engineering articles, 1941-1942. Ryan, Matthew J., Marshall Municipal Airport, 1951-1954. Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce, 1944-1960.

Formerly Saint Paul Association of Commerce.

Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee minutes and correspondence, 1960-1966. 2 folders. Saint Paul, City of, 1944-1966. 2 folders. 103.K.13.1B Saint Paul, City of: Port Authority, 1953-1964. 2 folders. Schroeder, L. L., Attorney, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1957. Skelly Oil Company, 1952. Skyline School of Aviation Maintenance prospectus, 1975. Sound Insulation Program homeowner opinion survey, grant years 1992-1993. Special regulations, 1959-1980. Status Reports of MAC projects, 1960–1964. 2 folders. Survey Findings of Commission and Plans of Operation by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission Submitted to the Governor and the City Councils, December 31, 1943. Survey correspondence, 1943-1944. Thompson, R. M., Insurance, 1946-1947. Timberlake and Timberlake, 1947-1960. Timberlake and Timberlake: Aviation Survey and Update, 1961-1962, 1964. Toltz, King, Day, Inc., 1946-1957. Trans-Canada Airlines, 1945-1949. Twin Cities Air Fair Official Program, 1957, 1962. Twin Cities Economic Survey on Air Carrier Service into the Twin Cities, 1948-1953. Twin Cities Transportation Survey, 1955-1956. United Airlines, Inc., 1945-1953. 2 folders. Underground fueling, 1960-1961. Wage increases, retroactivity, 1947-1963. War Assets Administration [WAA] Maintenance and Operating Equipment, Wold-Chamberlain Field and Holman Field, 1946. War Assets Administration [WAA] Modification Center, 1946-1952. WAC [War Assets Corporation], Surplus Property, Local and Washington, 1946. Western Airlines, 1944-1966. 3 folders. Wiirre, Ron, MAC Assistant to Operations, 1972-1973. Zoning, 1944-1956. Set 2: 103.I.4.9B Accidents, Safety procedures, undated, 1942-1972. Administration Building Floor Plans, Holman Field, undated. Air Carrier Operation Statistics, 1944-1980. Airline Passenger Schedules, Holman Field, 1927-1941. Airline Passenger Schedules, Wold-Chamberlain Field, 1929-1941. Airport Employee Survey, 1993-1994. Airport Operations Clerk, Instruction Manual, circa 1975-1980. AOCI [Airport Operators Council International], Information Survey, 1981. Airportworld Magazine, March 1969.

Features Henry G. Kuitu, Executive Director Metropolitan Airports Commission.

Aviation magazine articles related to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, 1967-1972. Based Aircraft Counts, Population Counts, 1980. Chairman, commissioners, council member lists, 1943-1973. Correspondence, 1960-1976. 2 folders.

Regarding Henry Kuitu, Executive Director, and airport functions.

Deposition of Marsha Zgodava in case of Janet Lee v Metropolitan Airports Commission, 1987. Engineer and Architects Report, Wold Chamberlain Field, 1972. Field Rules, Wold-Chamberlain, undated, 1936. Financial and Statistical History: 1926-1952, complied in 1952. 2 folders. Floor Plan, Terminal Building, Wold-Chamberlain Field, 1929. General Aviation Survey, 1993-1994. Guidelines for Rescue Operations, undated. Historical Data-Wold Chamberlain Field, 1927, 1960-1976.

Includes passenger history, traffic reports, fact sheets, comparative graphs, unusual freight.

Legislation and meeting laws, 1962-1988. Manual (partial), 1972-1981.

Includes sections on military directory, mailing list, bulletins, construction, etc., and Minnesota state airports listings.

Maps, undated, 1955-1960.

MAC airports, parking area, terminal buildings and regional airport plan.

Meeting procedures, 1966. Memorandum, statistics, undated, 1970, 1979, 1984, 1987. Metropolitan Airports Commission Manual, 1989-1990.

Includes operating procedures and a description of facilities and equipment.

MINCIS System [Minnesota Criminal Identification System], 1974-1977. National Register Eligibility, Original Wold-Chamberlain Terminal Complex, Review/Compliance No. 94-0681, April 1984. News releases, 1999. Noise Abatement Program, May 1986. Northwest Airline pilot strike, data, 1978. Northwest Orient Airlines magazine advertisement, 1947. Population count form letter, 1981. J. H. Shaffer, Administrator, correspondence, 1973. Statement: Need for Second Major Airport, Bill Lind, Chairman Aviation Committee, circa 1968. Survey America Data Tabulation, May 1993, December 1993, September 1994. 3 volumes in 1 folder.