Devilsled's 1000! Any landing you can walk from... Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

ILReviewer: Since I haven't heard from the owner I'm reluctantly archiving this cache. If the owner wishes to reactivate this cache in the next couple of months, please e-mail me at IllinoisGeocacher@yahoo.com and I'll unarchive it as soon as I can.

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Hidden : 3/29/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

Cache is not at posted coordinates! Read below for what was at the posted coordinates.

Half Day Naval Outlying Landing Field/Chicagoland Airport (3CG), Wheeling, IL: According to Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields: Illinois, the earliest depiction of Half Day Field was on a 1945 map. It was originally used during WWII as one of 15 satellite airfields that supported flight training operations at nearby NAS Glenview. Half Day NOLF was evidently abandoned by the Navy at some point between 1945/46, but then was reopened during 1946 as the Chicagoland Airport. The 1956 IL Airport Directory depicted Chicagoland as having 4 grass runways, with the longest being the 4,000' northeast/southwest strip. A paved taxiway led to a group of small hangars on the northeast corner of the field. The operators were listed as Chicagoland Airport Inc. & the Pop Goggins Flying Club, and the manager was listed as Arthur Schelter. The 1976 AOPA Airport Directory described Chicagoland as having a single 3,280' asphalt Runway 4/22 & two turf runways. The field was described as providing flight instruction, charter, repairs, and fuel. The operators then were listed as Chicagoland Airport and Whirlwind Propeller Service. Chicagoland Airport was no longer listed among active airfields in the 1979 Flight Guide, having closed some time in 1978.

Being a pilot himself, Devilsled likes airports, airfield archeology, and of course airplanes! Here’s the puzzle to get to this cache; when you get there look to the south and imagine an airfield in its heyday. Nearby you might find a street named for the former manager.


To find the cache, you need merely solve the following puzzle:

Douglas Skyhawk,
MiG Fishbed,
Lockheed Lodestar,
Grumman Intruder,
Spartan Executive,
Luscombe Silvaire,
Yokosuka Ohka,
Northrop Freedom Fighter,
Northrop Tiger II,
McDonnell Douglas Nightingale,
Gulfstream American Cougar,
Auster Atom

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