Hadley Field

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Hadley Field was an airport in South Plainfield, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It contained the Nike Missile Battery NY-65 and was used as a landing site for some of the nation's early air mail service.[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/publicat/people.pdf#page=12 People - The Transportation Connection: A Brief History of the NJDOT], New Jersey Department of Transportation, October 2001. Accessed July 8, 2016. "1918 Full-time airmail service from Curtiss Field, Long Island to East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. used Hadley Field in South Plainfield as an alternate landing site." The site has since been redeveloped into a strip mall and is currently owned by National Realty and Development Corp.[https://www.nrdc.com/properties/retail/hadley-center Hadley Center]

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{{cite book|last=Bond|first=Gordon|title=North Jersey Legacies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=COk72L7cRZsC&pg=PA81|year=2012|publisher=The History Press|isbn=978-1-60949-556-5}}
{{cite book|last=Holden|first=Henry M.|title=Newark Airport|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FvzlBy-UiFQC&pg=PA12|year=2009|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-6522-4}}
{{cite book |last=Kane |first=Joseph Nathan |date=1997 |title=Famous First Facts, Fifth Edition |url=https://archive.org/details/famousfirstfacts00kane_0 |publisher=The H. W. Wilson Company |isbn=0-8242-0930-3 |at=Item 6021, page 433 |quote=The first airmail long-distance night service was established on July 1, 1925, from New York City to Chicago, IL, over a 774-mile course. The first plane, from Hadley Field, New Brunswick, NJ (in the metropolitan New York area), was piloted by Dean C. Smith. It was followed by a second plane piloted by J.D. Hill. |url-access=registration }}
{{cite book|last1=Mappen|first1=Marc |title=Encyclopedia of New Jersey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_r9Ni6_u0JEC&pg=PA342|year=2004|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-3325-4|quote=On July 1, 1925, overnight airmail was flown from Hadley for the first time when pilot Dean C. Smith took off with eighty-seven pounds of mail.}}
{{cite book|last=Nielson|first=Dale|title=U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918–1927 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=urtPAAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Air Mail Pioneers}}
{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Dean C. |title=By the Seat of My Pants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YljuoQEACAAJ|year=2000|publisher=B.D. King Press|isbn=978-0-9716871-4-1}}
{{cite book|last=Veit|first=Richard F. |title=South Plainfield|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BVDAcRTdJgIC&pg=PA71|year=2002|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-1111-5| quote= Pilot Dean C. Smith took off from Hadley Field in a DH-4 on the first leg of the run. His destination was Cleveland, where the mail would be transferred to another flight. The flight took place on July 1, 1925. Over 15,000 people came to witness the event.}}

External links

[http://www.airmailpioneers.org/content/HadleyField.htm Night Airmail's first]
[https://www.airfieldsfreeman.com/NJ/Airfields_NJ_NE.htm#hadley Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields – Hadley Field]
[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25256 Speech of Vice President Nixon on Hadley Field] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818223701/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25256 |date=2016-08-18 }}

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Category:Defunct airports in New Jersey

Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Middlesex County, New Jersey

Category:Landmarks in New Jersey

Category:South Plainfield, New Jersey

Hadley Field

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