Lunken Airport landing and take-off

Reverse reads: "Landing and take-off at Lunken Airport. Credit: Myron Benson." This photograph depicts a plane landing at Lunken airport in Cincinnati, Ohio. An American Airlines airplane prepares to take-off in the foreground. Cincinnati Municipal Airport, also known as Lunken Field or Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport, was named after Eshelby Lunken. Located three miles southeast of Downtown Cincinnati, it was a commercial airport in the 1920's through the 1940's. When the original 1000-acre airfield was dedicated in 1925 it was the largest municipal airfield in the world. Lunken Airport was supplanted by the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1947 following catastrophic flooding from the Ohio River. The flooding problem prompted the airport's nickname of "Sunken Lunken". The control tower, located at the southwest corner of the airport, was almost totally submerged during the historic Ohio River flood of 1937, and now has a single black brick facing the airfield to indicate the high-water mark. Today the old control tower is home to the Lunken Cadet Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol, and is the oldest standing control tower in the United States