Cleveland 19 NewsCLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Labor Day has meant the Cleveland National Air Show at Burke Lakefront Airport for more than 60 years, beginning in 1964.
But Clevelanders’ passion for aviation goes back before then with the Cleveland Air Races from 1929 to 1949 — when 100,000 aviation fans would flood Cleveland Municipal Airport, now Hopkins, every day of the event.
“The world kinda came to Cleveland’s doorstop for one long week every year,” said John Lutsch, who curated an exhibit on the Air Races at the Crawford Auto and Aviation Museum in University Circle. “Residuals from that kind of activity shaped what we are today and allowed us to have something like our air show down at Burke Lakefront.”
The Air Races featured a cross-country race from California to Cleveland, a series of 5-lap races
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