This 1995 view of Hopkins shows the 1950's era tower alongside the current one which opened in 1987, soon to be replaced with a much taller one. Photo: Chuck Slusarczyk Jr. - OPShots.net
To a transportation secretary, visiting Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is like visiting hallowed ground. This airport was the United States’ first municipal airfield, opened in 1925, and was home to the world’s first air traffic control tower and airfield lighting system. More recently, it was home to the world’s first direct link between an airport and a regional rail transit system.Yesterday, Raymond H. “Ray” LaHood a Republican politician from Illinois who is currently the United States Secretary of Transportation, who has having served since 2009 joined Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt in the Forest City to break ground on a new air traffic control tower at Hopkins.The new tower will serve the more than 194,000 aircraft arrivals and departures at Hopkins every year and its radar will manage all air traffic within a 30-mile area around greater Cleveland.
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