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Pearson Field ,〔(Great Circle Mapper: KVUO - Vancouver, Washington (Pearson Field) )〕 is a city-owned municipal airport located one mile (2 km) southeast of the central business district of Vancouver, a city in Clark County, Washington, United States.〔 Pearson Field is the oldest continuously operating airfield in the Pacific Northwest and one of the two oldest continuously operating airfields in the United States, receiving recognition in 2012 as an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics historic aerospace site.〔http://www.fortvan.org/images/AIAA_Booklet.pdf〕〔http://www.aiaa.org/HistoricAerospaceSites/〕 Pearson Field's history began with the landing of a Baldwin airship piloted by Lincoln Beachey, upon the polo grounds of the Vancouver Barracks in 1905.〔Alley, Bill (2006). ''Pearson Field Pioneering Aviation in Vancouver and Portland''. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-3129-8.〕〔Pearson Field: Compiled From Columbian Archives. the Columbian. 2010-05-21. URL:http://www.columbian.com/history/pearson/. Accessed: 2010-05-21. (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/5pu3OJB4I)〕 Located in the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, it is also the only airport in the United States that operates totally within the boundaries of a national historic reserve.〔(Pearson Field Airport - Services & Public Safety - City of Vancouver, Washington, USA )〕 Primarily used for general aviation, the airfield's lone runway is located directly beneath the final approach to runway 10L at nearby Portland International Airport. The airport lies next to Washington State Route 14 and the Columbia River. == History == Pearson Field's history dates back to the early 1900s and is named for local resident First Lieutenant Alexander Pearson Jr. of the United States Army. ; 1905 : Lincoln Beachey pilots his Baldwin airship from the grounds of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition on the shores of Guild's Lake in Portland, Oregon to Vancouver Barracks in the first aerial crossing of the Columbia River. This flight also set an endurance record for flight at the time. Carrying a letter from Theodore Hardee, an official of the fair, to the commandant of the Vancouver Barracks, General Constant Williams, the flight is also the recognized as the first time an airship is used to deliver a letter.〔http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1905-09-20/ed-1/seq-1/〕 ; 1911 : First airplane lands at Pearson Field. ; 1912 : A homebuilt aircraft built onsite becomes the first aircraft departure. ; 1923–1941 : Pearson Field is home to the US Army Air Service. ; 1923 : Commander Lt. Oakley G. Kelly makes the first non-stop transcontinental flight. ; 1924 : Pearson Field is a stopover point on the army's first round-the-world flight. ; 1925 : Pearson Field is named after Lt. Alexander Pearson by order of Major General John L. Hines.〔General Orders No. 9, J.L. Hines, War Department, May 7, 1925〕 On 16 September 1925, during the inauguration of Pearson Field, in front of 20,000 spectators and against 53 competitor pilots, Edith Foltz won the dead-stick landing competition.〔http://fortvan.org/images/Pearson/Educational_PDFs/Foltz.pdf〕 ; 1937 : Soviet aviator Valery Chkalov lands at the end of the first non-stop transpolar flight. ; 1994 : City of Vancouver and National Park Service enter into agreement governing the future of Pearson Field. ; 2005 : Pearson Field celebrates its 100-year anniversary. ; 2012 : Pearson Field receives AIAA historic aerospace site designation.〔http://fortvan.org/images/AIAA_Booklet.pdf〕〔 http://www4.columbian.com/news/2012/sep/06/pearson-fields-standing-in-aviation-history-recogn/〕〔 http://www4.columbian.com/news/2012/sep/10/pearson-field-soars-past-kitty-hawk-in-one-area-of/〕 ; 2015 : AIAA monument placed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pearson Field」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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