1944 National Airport Plan

The map below shows the airports in the 1944 National Airport Plan, marked as crosses with sizes reflecting the 5 proposed airport categories.  A full resolution (6543 x 3850) image of the map in PNG format and a list of the airports with proposed categories and improvement costs in CSV format can be downloaded here.

The data from the Plan were used to construct the instruments used in Sheard, N., 2014, “Airports and Urban Sectoral Employment”, Journal of Urban Economics 80, 133–152 and Sheard, N., 2017, “Airport Consolidation and the Provision of Air Services”, Journal of Air Transport Management, 60, 31–44.