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Coming Monday: Come fly with me

In 1945, the city of Brainerd purchased about 900 acres on what became Highway 210 for what would become Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport. But before that, Henry Rosko housed the first airfield in the region, according to airport officials.

041821.N.BD.Waco10biplane.JPG — The Waco 10 was a three-seat open-cockpit biplane built by the Advance Aircraft Co., later the Waco Aircraft Co., from 1927 to 1933. Submitted photo

By Brainerd Dispatch

April 17, 2021 at 11:00 PM

Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport wasn’t the first site where planes left and arrived in the Brainerd lakes area.

Learn more about the first local airfield in the 1920s and how it soon became obsolete for the needs of the flyers in the region in Monday’s story by Frank Lee.