Episode 62 – Cleared for Silence

About this episode

This episode reflects on the airports that have disappeared over the years and their impact on aviation and surrounding cities.

As 2025 comes to a close, this episode of Destination Aviation takes a step back — not just to reflect on the year, but to remember the airports that no longer appear on today’s charts. After a few opening updates and some behind-the-scenes channel news, the conversation shifts into a journey through the ghosts of aviation — airfields that once launched legends, trained generations of pilots, and shaped the cities that grew around them… only to quietly disappear. These are places where runw...

People in this episode

Host: Jeffrey Miller

Topics covered

• aviation history
• disappeared airports
• reflection
• airfields
• ghosts of aviation

Keywords

• aviation
• airports
• history
• reflection
• airfields
• disappearance
• cities

Mentioned in this episode

Places: airports, airfields, cities

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