Due to the restricted space available at nearby Mineola Airport, a new 350-acre flying facility was created in Garden City, New York, in 1910.
It was considered one of the finest flying facilities of its era, with 31 wooden hangars, 5 grandstands, workshops, a refreshment stand, and a headquarters.
Airfield was large, stretching from Stratford to the Long Island Rail Road’s Main Line and from Roxbury to Clinch.
The first airmail flight in America originated here when pilot Earle L. Ovington flew to Mineola on September 23, 1911, carrying 640 letters and 1,280 postcards.
[7] By 1913, however, the facility was seen as too small, and the land too valuable, so it was closed and all flying operations moved to the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome.