This is a large camoed peanut butter jar. If you sit for a while on a nice day from ~9 am to 6 pm we’re sure you will see some of the synthetic birds flying by. We understand there is a good flock of Poison Ivy nesting in the cache vicinity. Please take precaution...Gloves, extraction tools, whatever you can come up with - or - wait until winter and the freezeup.
Please no night caching because lights might disturb the birds (if they’re nesting) and there’s a neighborhood nearby.
The Kent State University Airport is just south across Rt 59.
Here is a brief history of the airport.
- 1917 - Kent State University Airport reported to be one of the first airports in the state of Ohio. First used as an enroute landing field by pilots ferrying World War I Jennys to other parts of the United States from Canada.
- 1920 - Airport opens to the public under the name of Stow Aviation Field.
- 1925 - Al T. Simmons and Hugh Robbins form Robbins Flying Service.
- 1930 - Robbins Flying Service built a small service hangar which is today part of the Maintenance hangar. During the early1930s, such notable flyers as Charles Lindbergh, Floyd Bennet and Eddie Rickenbacker flew from the field.
- 1939 - Rudy VanDevere purchased the farm land that facilitates the airport. Airport became known as Stow Field.
- 1943 - Kent State University purchased the airport from Rudy VanDevere then leased back the airport to Ray VanDevere. Stow Field renamed Kent State University Airport.
- 1947 - Large Army surplus aircraft hangar was constructed and the present Aerospace Technology program was started during the 1947 school year.
- 1965 - North-South runway paved and a 14 unit "T" Hangar was constructed.
- 1966 - Airfield named Andrew W. Paton Field in honor of the professor who taught the University's first aerospace course in 1947.
- 1982 - Constructed North end of the North-South parallel taxiway.
- 1983 - Constructed South end of the North-South parallel taxiway. Constructed Southern runway extension (60').
- 1985 - Visual Approach Slope Indicators landing guidance system installed.
- 1987 - North-South runway extended from 3065' to 3950'.
- 1989 - Aircraft parking ramp/apron expanded to 120' by 360'. Construct final 50' section of North-South runway making it 4,000' in length.
- 1999 - Airport runway, taxiway, ramp/apron resurfaced.
Exerpted from the KSU Airport web page - 9/2014.
There is room enough for ~one car to pull off on Kaufman Rd which runs north off Rt 59 just to the west of GZ. The pull off is immediately north of 59.