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Monday, January 1, 2001
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Dale Mabry Field
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Former airfield covering present day (2000) areas of Appleyard Drive, Tallahassee Community College,
the Leon County Jail, etc. It was named for Capt. Dale Mabry, a native of Tallahassee, who served in
World War I, only to be killed in 1922 in the crash of the "Roma," a dirigible he was piloting, on Armistice
Day (11/11), 1929.
See Vertical File - LC/T - Airport - Dale Mabry Field
also: Tallahasee, Favored Land (Ref + Circ) 975.988 Ell, pp. 118, 120.
Tallahassee Historical Society, v. 8, 1978, p. 5 (Ref + Circ) 975.988 T147A
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LCLCPL
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