Stapleton International Airport
Stapleton International Airport was Denver, Colorado's primary airport from 1929 to 1995. At different times it served as a hub for Continental Airlines, Frontier Airlines, People Express, TWA, United Airlines and Western Airlines.
In 1995, Stapleton was replaced by Denver International Airport. It has now been decommissioned and the airport property was redeveloped as a retail and residential neighborhood.
Stapleton International Airport Media
Looking west, January 1966. Only concourses A, B, and C existed then. A United Airlines Pilot Training Center was later built on the vacant land between the airport's west boundary and the housing tracts.
Looking north, January 1966. Runway 35 became 35L, after 35R was built. The old United Airlines pilot training center buildings, on the airport proper, were still in operation. A UAL DC-8 pilot training flight has just made a missed approach, complete with its shadow.
Two Convair 580s of the Denver-based Aspen Airways at Stapleton in 1986
USGS photo of Stapleton International Airport looking north, June 1993, shortly before its closure. Runway 17R/35L crosses Interstate 70 at its midpoint.
Control tower at Stapleton photographed from top level of close-in parking structure, 1995
Former Stapleton International Airport (February 6, 2006)
UAL Douglas DC-6 N37514 on the northwest maintenance ramp of Stapleton, September 1966
Other websites
- Airport history Archived 2002-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Stapleton Airport Photographs
- Airport diagrams: 1938, 1956, and 1959
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