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Stapleton International Airport control tower
Control tower at Denver's Stapleton International Airport photographed from top level of close-in parking structure, 1995.

Stapleton International Airport was Denver, Colorado's primary airport from 1929 to 1995. At different times it served as a hub for Continental Airlines, Frontier Airlines, People Express, TWA, United Airlines and Western Airlines.

In 1995, Stapleton was replaced by Denver International Airport. It has now been decommissioned and the airport property was redeveloped as a retail and residential neighborhood.

Images for kids

  • Jan1966-StapletonAirportDenver

    Looking west, January 1966. Only concourses A, B, and C existed then. A United Airlines Pilot Training Center was later built on the vacant land between the airport's west boundary and the housing tracts.

  • Jan1966-StapletonAirport-SouthToNorthView

    Looking north, January 1966. Runway 35 became 35L, after 35R was built. The old United Airlines pilot training center buildings, on the airport proper, were still in operation. A UAL DC-8 pilot training flight has just made a missed approach, complete with its shadow.

  • Convair 580 N5818 Aspen Aws DEN Stapleton 20.07.86 edited-3

    Two Convair 580s of the Denver-based Aspen Airways at Stapleton in 1986

  • Jun1993-StapletonAirportDenver

    USGS photo of Stapleton International Airport looking north, June 1993, shortly before its closure. Runway 17R/35L crosses Interstate 70 at its midpoint.

  • 6609-UAL-DC-6-NorthRampStapletonDEN

    UAL Douglas DC-6 N37514 on the northwest maintenance ramp of Stapleton, September 1966

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Stapleton para niños

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