Grants-Milan Flight Service Station

The Grants-Milan Flight Service Station, at 1116 N. Dale Carnutte Rd. in Grants, New Mexico, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[2]

Grants-Milan Flight Service Station
Grants-Milan Flight Service Station is located in New Mexico
Grants-Milan Flight Service Station
Location1116 N. Dale Carnutte Rd., Grants, New Mexico
Coordinates35°09′59″N 107°53′51″W
Built byCharley Diaz
MPSRoute 66 through New Mexico MPS
NRHP reference No.15000492[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 3, 2015

It was then part of the Western New Mexico Aviation Heritage Museum, which honors early aviation pioneers who flew the Los Angeles-to-Amarillo segment of the Midcontinental Airway.[2]

It is a flight service station that was built in 1953 to serve the Grants-Milan Municipal Airport.

Western New Mexico Aviation Heritage Museum

The Western New Mexico Aviation Heritage Museum is a small aviation museum located at the Grants-Milan airport (KGNT) in Grants, New Mexico. It was dedicated on June 9, 2012.[3]

It commemorates the Los Angeles to Amarillo segment of the Transcontinental Air Transport, an early air mail provider. It consists of two 1929 structures: a 55-foot beacon tower and a small building with a generator. It also has a concrete arrow which helped aviators find the correct direction to continue in.[4][2]

References
  1. "National Register Weekly List". National Park Service. October 6, 2017.
  2. "Grants / Milan airport building added to National Register". Route66News.Com. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
  3. Boyett, Rosanne (June 12, 2012). "More than eight decades of history". Cibola County Beacon. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  4. "What are these Giant Concrete Arrows across the American Landscape". 18 July 2013. core 77. Retrieved July 27, 2013.

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