The Airport was renamed to Tulsa Riverside Airport in January of 2022. Richard L. Jones, Jr. Airport (RVS) opened July 3, 1958 in southwest Tulsa to serve as a reliever airport for Tulsa International Airport. At that time, this 752-acre facility had a single 4,000-foot (1,200 m) long runway, an aircraft ramp, and one concrete building.
Since then, the airport has grown to become a hub of business and economic activity for the Tulsa region. It now includes three runways, over two hundred commercial and private hangars, and over 500 based aircraft. In 2008, RVS was the fifth busiest general aviation airport in the country. Much of the airport's activity comes directly from its seven flight schools.
In 2009 and again in 2010 the Tulsa Airport Authority held a fundraising golf tournament to create what they called "a first-class observation area" in an effort to discourage drivers from pulling over on 91st street directly adjacent to the airport to watch the aircraft landing. They initially built six parking spaces outside the fence on the southwest side of the airport. Currently an elevated viewing platform, enlarged airport diagram, and six picnic tables on concrete slabs have been completed and installed. Thus far all the work on the observation area has been completed by Tulsa Airport Authority employees except for the enlarged airport diagram which was completed as part of a Boy Scout Eagle project.
Personally I have driven past the observation area many times since it first opened up and while I thought it was neat, I never stopped. That is until a cache was placed here a few years ago that I really enjoyed.Got to love the places this hobby will take you. Once I found out my wife and I were having our son, it was one of the first places I thought of that I couldnt wait to take him so we could watch the airplanes. Now that he is old enough, we come out here several times a month to watch the planes, run around aimlessly and to see how fast he can run up and down the observation deck.
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