Some 110 seats await outbound North Platte Regional Airport passengers starting Tuesday night, a day after Lee Bird Field’s new $30 million terminal makes its public debut with a 1 p.m. ribbon-cutting and 2 p.m. open house. A modern jetway (behind and to the right of the camera) will shelter them as they embark.
The sloping roofs of the North Platte Regional Airport’s new terminal stand out from Lee Bird Field’s venerable 1952 terminal at right. The double-wing plane depicted on the latter’s north wall honors the Feb. 22, 1921, cross-country airmail relay that made the 107-year-old airfield the first in the country to be lighted for landings.
Lee Bird Field’s 1952 terminal can be seen out of the west windows of the new North Platte Regional Airport’s spacious, well-lighted welcoming area. It’ll host a 1 p.m. ribbon-cutting and 2 p.m. open house Monday, with dignitaries including U.S. Sens. Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts and Gov. Jim Pillen among speakers at the early event.
Some 110 seats await outbound North Platte Regional Airport passengers starting Tuesday night, a day after Lee Bird Field’s new $30 million terminal makes its public debut with a 1 p.m. ribbon-cutting and 2 p.m. open house. A modern jetway (behind and to the right of the camera) will shelter them as they embark.
The sloping roofs of the North Platte Regional Airport’s new terminal stand out from Lee Bird Field’s venerable 1952 terminal at right. The double-wing plane depicted on the latter’s north wall honors the Feb. 22, 1921, cross-country airmail relay that made the 107-year-old airfield the first in the country to be lighted for landings.
Lee Bird Field’s 1952 terminal can be seen out of the west windows of the new North Platte Regional Airport’s spacious, well-lighted welcoming area. It’ll host a 1 p.m. ribbon-cutting and 2 p.m. open house Monday, with dignitaries including U.S. Sens. Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts and Gov. Jim Pillen among speakers at the early event.
