Lansdowne Airport is a small, local airport on the East Side of

Youngstown Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the largest city and county seat of Mahoning County. At the 2020 census, Youngstown had a city population of 60,068. It is a principal city of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area, which ...

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, US near the

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state line. Lansdowne Airport is a privately owned airport, located in an area known as the "Sharon Line" to locals, due to its proximity to a defunct train line that once ran from Youngstown to

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, right across the state line through the Steel Valleys. The airport was dedicated as Lansdowne Field in late October 1926. It was named for Lieutenant Commander

Zachary Lansdowne Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, USN (December 1, 1888 – September 3, 1925) was a United States Navy officer and early Naval aviator who contributed to the development of the Navy's first lighter-than-air craft. He earned the Navy ...

, an Ohio native and commander of the US Navy

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USS ''Shenandoah'' (ZR-1), which crashed in

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, in 1925. Rear Admiral

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, then the head of the Navy's

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and champion of airships, was in attendance. Lansdowne Airport was the first airport in Youngstown and was the first in the region to see airmail service. Because of the increasing size in airplanes and the lack of a suitable amount of land in the vicinity of Lansdowne, a decision was made to build Youngstown Municipal Airport eleven miles away in

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