AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – The Amarillo City Council on Tuesday awarded the contract for demolition and abatement of the old English Field Terminal Building.
This contract is to abate hazardous materials and demolish the old English Field Terminal Building at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport is for $469,270.00, and airport revenues will provide the funds for this demolition. The item is budgeted.
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According to the Texas Air and Space Museum, in 1929, Harold English and Thornton Oxnard converted a grassy field seven miles east of Amarillo into what is now the modern airport.
“Harold English had been one of the candidates to be one of the airport managers. When they declined to use him at the city airport, the Bivins Airport downtown, Harold set out to build a better mousetrap, and with Thornton Oxnard as a partner, they found the site of the Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport…He may have lost the fight, but he won the battle. He got the airport to its present location. It’s been a great location,” said Ron Fernuik, president of the Texas Air and Space Museum…