Built just after the war, sometime between 1945-47, the private little airport was considered very modern. According to the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, "One of the newest & most modern fields for private flyers and the only one in the Dallas area equipped for both day & night flying is the Highland Park Airport.”
An undated photo of the Flight Five Wing Scouts posing with an Ercoupe in front of Highland Park Airport's Hicks Aviation Service Hangar from the 1947 North Dallas High School Viking Yearbook (courtesy of Danny Linn).
As of 1947, the airport housed 6 flight businesses and over 100 planes permanently within its 4 hangars (later expanding to 7). It featured 2 asphalt runways, measuring 2,380’ and 1,700’. One of these had to be shortened when LBJ was built in 1968, and the whole airfield was closed shortly thereafter. Owner Royce Barron chose to build a new airport in present day Plano, near Custer Rd at Legacy Pkwy.
Last known photo of the airport, taken in the 1960s.
Highland Park Airport was still depicted on a 1966 Conoco DFW road map. Note the depiction of the proposed alignment of the adjacent 635 Freeway, the construction of which would soon spell the end for the airport.
Spike Cutler recalled that Highland Park Airport "was still open after LBJ Freeway (I-635) opened in about 1968; a friend of my father's was waiting for a right turn from the frontage road to Coit and a pilot struck the roof of his car (a little low on the landing!); bent sheet metal, no deaths. I recall my father taking me there when the airport was still open, but fading fast."
Heath Coker recalled, "My Dad bought the land when he was a partner of Trammel Crow and they developed it into the office park called Park Central. We often raced up & down the old runway before there were buildings there. I can tell you that the site of the Olla Podrida was actually the hangar of the old Highland Park airport. I used to ride my horses in them. It was 3 hangars that were turned into a shopping center unlike any other at that time."
What’s interesting to note here is that, while the area has been developed into a business park, the layout of the complex still follows the angle of the runways it was built over:
Information taken from http://www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Airfields_TX_Dallas_N.htm#dallasnorth
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