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Three men—Indianapolis city employee Charles Hack, “Presto Lite” pilot Dick Knox and an unnamed American Airlines pilot—pose with a small plane at the Indianapolis Municipal Airport in the 1940s. The airport, which opened on Sept. 24, 1931, was later renamed Weir Cook Airport after Col. Harvey Weir Cook—a World War I flying ace from Indiana who was killed during World War II. Now known as the Indianapolis International Airport, the facility has grown from a 21,000-square-foot terminal on 400 acres to a 1.2-million-square-foot terminal on 8,000 acres. It has repeatedly earned the honor of Best Airport in North America by the Airports Council International—North America.
Sources: Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis International Airport
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