Arapahoe Airport, 1978 to 1985 (renamed Centennial in the 2000s)
Edited by David Barth December 2015. Photos were taken by David Barth.
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| Arapahoe Airport in 1978, looking southeast. |
Denver Technological Center buildings are on the right. The control tower, established in the early 1970s, is at the junction of the crosswind runway and the main runway, near the center of the picture.
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| A Lear Jet at Arapahoe Airport, May 1981. |
This view is looking west from the second floor of the Denver Air Center building.
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| Arapahoe Airport, June 1981. |
Three pictures were taken in the afternoon, looking to the southeast, while on a left downwind for runway 34. The taxiway for runway 34-16 is at the lower right of the pictures. Denver Air Center is the brown, two-story octagonal building at the upper right. The firehouse is the white and yellow building to the left of Denver Air Center.
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| Arapahoe Airport, June 1981. |
Continuing on a left downwind for runway 34, this picture shows Denver Air Center, the two-story brown building left of center.
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| Arapahoe Airport, June 1981. |
The third picture in the set of three shows the control tower as the white building with the black coupola on top, near the upper right. Denver Air Center is to the left, outside the picture.
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| Arapahoe Airport, April 1984. |
This view to the southeast shows Denver Air Center, the octagonal building right of center, and the hangars at the top of the picture, along runway 28-10. The control tower is outside the picture, at the upper right.
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Spiral staircase at Denver Air Center,
Arapahoe Airport, April 1985. |
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Looking south from Arapahoe Airport toward
Pikes Peak, May 1985. |
In this picture, the plane is in the Arapahoe Airport traffic pattern, on a left crosswind for runway 34, and the picture was taken out the right window, showing I25 as it runs toward Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak. The next picture shows the plane on final approach to runway 34.
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Looking south from Arapahoe Airport toward
Pikes Peak, May 1985. |
This is a view to the north on approach to runway 34 at Arapahoe Airport.