[2] Norton Field was located in an area southwest of present East Broad Street, Fairway Boulevard, and Hamilton Road in Whitehall, Ohio, just south of what is now John Glenn Columbus International Airport.

The 100-acre (40 ha) property, with dimensions of 2,000 by 2,250 feet (610 m × 690 m), received a 10-year lease, secured from Jim Lamp and paid for by the Pure Oil Company, according to Ohio Aviation News (Fall 2000).

"For $1 a year as the community’s part of the deal, Norton Field was equipped by the War Department with 2 steel hangars, a fueling dock & a beacon light on a tower.

[1] Many of aviation's early notables, including Charles Lindbergh, William “Billy” Mitchell, and James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, flew from Norton Field.

Charles Lindbergh visited Norton Field on 29 May 1928 as a Technical Advisor for Transcontinental Air Transport, surveying a cross country train-plane route.