Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields:
Western Oklahoma
© 2002, © 2006 by Paul Freeman. Revised 12/24/06.
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(Original) Woodward Municipal Airport, Woodward, OK
36.42 North / 99.38 West (Northwest of Oklahoma City, OK)
Woodward Airport, as depicted on the 1933 Wichita Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy).
The original municipal airport for Woodward was located adjacent to the southeast side of the town.
The date of construction of the field has not been determined.
It may have been established at some point between 1929-33,
as it was not yet depicted on the 1929 Rand McNally Air Trails map (according to Chris Kennedy).
The earliest depiction of Woodward Municipal which has been located
was on the 1933 Wichita Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy).
The Airport Directory Company's 1933 Airport Directory (courtesy of Chris Kennedy)
described Woodward Municipal Airport as having a 2,100' x 1,993' rectangular sod landing area.
The Airport Directory Company's 1941 Airport Directory (courtesy of Chris Kennedy)
depicted Woodward Municipal Airport as having three sod runways,
with the longest being the 2,200' northwest/southeast runway.
The October 1950 Wichita USAF Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris Kennedy)
depicted Woodward Municipal as having a 2,200' unpaved runway.
An aerial view looking south at the Woodward Municipal Airport from the 1950 OK Airport Directory (courtesy of Chris Kennedy).
The directory described Woodward Municipal as having three sod runways,
with the longest being the 2,200' northwest/southeast & northeast/southwest strips.
The field was said to offer repairs, fuel, and hangars.
The manager was listed as Burrell Tibbs.
The original Woodward Municipal Airport was evidently closed at some point within the next four years,
as it was no longer depicted at all on the June 1954 Wichita Sectional Chart (according to Chris Kennedy).
It had evidently been replaced by the much larger former Woodward Army Airfield (a few miles west of the town),
which had been released by the military & reused as a civilian airport.
By the time of the 1995 USGS aerial photo,
the site of the original Woodward Municipal Airport had been reused as a golf course,
with no trace of the runways remaining.
A 2004 aerial photo, annotated by Chris Kennedy to show the runway layout of the original Woodward Municipal Airport.
The 3rd-from-the-left building at the northwest corner is an original hangar
(the same building was visible in the photo from the 1941 airport directory).
The site of the original Woodward Municipal Airport is located southeast of the intersection of 1st Street & Temple Houston Drive.
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