Minor Stewart Air Field On Almeda Rd.

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I was looking around old Houston airports and I discovered an unknown airfield named Minor Stewart Air Field.

Does HAIF know anything about it? Where was it located?  I bet that historical Texas airfield website would have it? They have everything!

Here's a 1943 list of Houston airports -

Cunningham Airport
Houston Main Street Airport
Houston Municipal Airport
Minor Stewart Field
Sam Houston Airport
Skyport Airport

 

 

[Ross]

The Freeman historic airfield site doesn't mention the Minor Stewart airfield, but it does appear on the Houston sectional he shows at the top of this page, East of the town of Almeda http://www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Airfields_TX_HoustonS.htm

The 1944 aerials don't show any sign of the airfield.

The text stream from July 1934 Aero Digest has this paragraph

Air  Show  Features  Dedication 

THE  NEW  Minor  Stewart  Airport  on 
Alemeda  Road,  Houston,  Tex.,  was  dedi- 
cated recently  when  an  air  show,  under 
the  supervision  of  Hugh  Thomasson,  at- 
tracted thousands  of  spectators  to  the 
new  project. 

Included  in  the  program  was  a  num- 
ber of  speed  races,  stunting  and  pre- 
cision contests. 

Not sure if this is related, but Minor Stewart was a co-founder of Stewart Title https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91264367/minor-stewart

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From the book Houston, a history and guide published in 1942.

Minor Stewart Airport, 12 m. S. of city on Almeda Rd. (State 288), sightseeing trips and charter service, taxi $1.50.

https://archive.org/stream/houstonahistory00writmiss/houstonahistory00writmiss_djvu.txt