A marker with the history of Rosko Field is positioned with one of the original hangars in the background, which is now Shipman Auto Parts. The marker was dedicated Saturday as the final event of Brainerd History Week. Steve Kohls/Brainerd Dispatch Gallery
Historian Carl Faust (left) listens to aviation historian Mike Petersen along with Holly Holm, Brainerd Community Action, talk about one of the original hangars for Rosko Field Saturday in the Shipman Auto Parts warehouse on the south side of Brainerd. Inside the hangar is an airplane wing that has been stored in the rafters for years next to a small room where a flight instructor lived with his wife in 1946. Steve Kohls/Brainerd Dispatch Gallery
Historian Carl Faust (left) secures the new sign to a marker for Rosko Field Saturday while Glen Knowlen, one of the owners of Shipman Auto Parts watches. Steve Kohls/ Brainerd Dispatch Gallery
Perched in the rafters of a Rosko Field hangar, now Shipman Auto Parts warehouse, is a wooden airplane wing, dating back to the time when the field was operational. Next to the wing is a single room where the flight instructor lived in 1946. Steve Kohls/ Brainerd Dispatch Gallery
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