Baltimore Municipal Airport

After 1706, when an official tobacco port had been established at Baltimore Town along Whetstone Point on the Northwest Branch of the River by authority of the Maryland General Assembly for shipping and imports, there was enough that local citizens petitioned the legislature to lay out a town which was authorized in 1729 and followed the next year by an official "Original Survey" laying out lots of land.

As the official Anglican Church for the county, it was decided to move the Parish to the new Baltimore Town, so Lot#19 was purchased from Charles Carroll of Annapolis in 1730 and construction of a new brick building (the first in Baltimore Town) was begun at the southeast corner of Forest (later North Charles Street) and St. Paul's Lane (later East Saratoga Street) on a cliff overlooking a bend to the east in the old Jones Falls stream.

It was built on an artificial peninsula built from dredged harbor silt alongside the old Colgate Creek on the "Patapsco Neck" peninsula, which ends and juts out into the Chesapeake Bay between the Patapsco River to the south and Back River in the north at Sparrows Point and North Point.

Lower Colgate Creek flowed into the Patapsco River and is today the site of the Dundalk Marine Terminal facility of the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore.

Problems with the harbor silt led to lengthy delays and the facilities for land-based aircraft weren't ready for use until 1941.

In 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill departed from Baltimore Municipal Airport on a British Overseas Airways Company (BOAC) flight, which is today British Airways", after visiting President Franklin D. Roosevelt in what was at first, a secret trip to the White House in Washington, D.C. during the Christmas season for Allied consultations shortly after the U.S. entered World War II after the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched a surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, and later on other U.S. air and naval bases in the Philippines.

The squadron was originally equipped with piston-powered P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, later replaced by F-51 Mustangs, but eventually the unit converted to the jet-powered F-86 Sabre.

By April 2013, Frederick N. Rasmussen, an historical and nostalgia newspaper columnist at The Baltimore Sun, reported that the iconic Pan Am Terminal that he visited five years earlier had been razed, and a substantial piece of Maryland's aviation history was lost.