Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 27, 1943
Caption:
ANN ARBOR AIRPORT PLOTTED IN MINIATURE: Based on plans issued by the State Board of Aeronautics, students in the School of Architecture and Design have completed a model of the proposed Ann Arbor airport, which has been plotted from aerial photographs. The 150 feet wide runways are built to scale on land that the city now owns, although the cluster of buildings at the far right have been constructed on the assumption that the city will buy another plot of ground. Now that the students have completed the model airport, their next assignment is to camouflage it so carefully that enemy bombers supposedly flying overhead would be unable to locate it.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 21, 1941
Caption:
This was an airport hangar before windstorm. A bomb dropped by an invading airplane could have done little more damage, except to dig a hole, than was caused to a hangar and workshop being constructed at the Ann Arbor airport by what apparently was a tip of a cyclone during Saturday night's windstorm. The wreckage, shown scattered over the landscape, formerly stood atop the building blocks in the foreground. An airplane also was damaged, bringing the total loss to nearly $3,500.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 7, 1946
Caption:
RECONNAISSANCE PILOT: Everett Esch, right, gives Ernie McCoy a few words of congratulations after passing the latter with honors for a private pilot's license. McCoy plans to do some airborne scouting of Wolverine football opponents this fall.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 7, 1947
Caption:
Graceful co-ordination rivaling the flight of a sea-gull is demonstrated by this light plane as it skims in for a perfect landing on the snow-blanketed field at the Ann Arbor city airport. The plane is one of several that have been equipped with ski landing-gear to familiarize flight students with special problems of winter flying. Ice-bound rivers and lakes furnish hundreds of new landing-fields during the long Michigan winter - but use of temporary facilities provided by the Weather Man requires a special technique on the part of the pilot. The plane is being flown by Everett Esch, former Willow Run test pilot and now the head of a local flying school.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 23, 1949
Caption:
The end of World War II returned a large contingent of Army and Navy fliers to their Ann Arbor homes and helped boom private flying in this area. Here Richard Vreeland, 20, of 5885 Geddes Rd., who spent a year as an Army air cadet, is shown gassing up his plane at the Ann Arbor Airport. A small aviation enthusiast, his 11-year-old brother-in-law, David Black, of 252 N. Devonshire Rd., aids him in "topping off" a wing tank. Vreeland purchased the war surplus Army training ship a year ago and plans to fly it down to Cuba next winter, where he hopes to operate as a commercial pilot.