[1] The idea of building an aviation field on the site of the Old Saugus Race Track was first proposed in December 1910 by the Aeroplane Company of America.

The company proposed spending $100,000 to convert the old race track into an air field and construct a factory for the manufacturing of flying machines.

He flew about five miles to the Lynn, Massachusetts Town Commons where he dropped a sack of mail from the plane.

Fish suffered only minor injuries while Shoemanhorne had a bruised head and a badly twisted right ankle.

[14] On October 21, 1915, J. Chauncy Redding and Philip Bulman were killed when their plane crashed about a third of a mile from the airfield.

The plane dropped 800 feet after the supporting braces and wires holding one of the wings suddenly collapsed.

[15] On May 16, 1919, Melvin W. Hodgdon won the Boston Globe Trophy by flying from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Saugus in 3 hours and 59 minutes.

[17] After Massachusetts legalized pari-mutuel wagering in 1934, a group of area businessmen and government officials led by Henry A.

B. Peckham, John J. Mullen, Charles Friend, Harold Dodge, Frederick Willis, William Landergan, and James E. McElroy attempted to bring horse racing back to the site.

[19] In 1940, property owner Godfrey Lowell Cabot offered the site to the United States Navy for use as the location of its main New England dirigible base.