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

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  The location of Stapleton Airport on a map of Denver neighborhoods.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Two Convair 580s of the Denver-based Aspen Airways at Stapleton in 1986

• N999UA Boeing 737-291 United Airlines, Denver Stapleton 1989.jpg

  A United Airlines Boeing 737-200 at Stapleton in April 1989. This aircraft would later crash as United Airlines Flight 585 in 1991

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  Control tower at Stapleton photographed from top level of close-in parking structure, 1995

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  Former Stapleton International Airport (February 6, 2006)

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  UAL Douglas DC-6 N37514 on the northwest maintenance ramp of Stapleton, September 1966

• N626TX Douglas DC-9-14 at Denver Stapleton, 1985.jpg

  The aircraft involved as Flight 1713 at Stapleton in 1985

Other websites

• Airport history Archived 2002-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Stapleton Airport Photographs
• Airport diagrams: 1938, 1956, and 1959