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Massey Aerodrome & Air Museum
Massey Aerodrome is a public use airport with a 3000’ x 100’ grass runway dedicated to the preservation of grassroots aviation. Four pilots transformed corn fields in a matter of months, into a working public use airport and opened in 2001. In 2015, after the loss of two of the founding partners, the airport partnership was reorganized with the addition of five new partners to assure the continuing success of Massey. Massey Aerodrome features the Massey Air Museum that visitors can enter, which includes 24 flying airplanes, 13 gliders, a rotating beacon tower, and a 100-year-old working windmill with cypress wood tank inside the tower. The Museum was officially begun in 2002 as a non-profit organization dedicated to education, and preservation of matters relating to grassroots aviation in this country. The museum is not just a museum in the traditional sense. It is also a “living museum”. That is, it is operated just like one of the thousands of small town airports of the Thirties, Forties and Fifties – so many of which have been closed in recent years due to urban sprawl. Most of the aircraft are maintained in flying order and flown regularly over the farms and streams of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The aerodrome is always open to fly-in or drive-in traffic. (Wikipedia and Massey website)