Aviation View Magazine | Volume 1, Issue 4

63 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4 ARNOLD PALMER REGIONAL A I RPORT Flying Field in 1924. It then evolved into the J.D. Hill Airport in 1928, Latrobe Airport in 1935, and Westmoreland County Airport in 1978. In 1999, the name was changed to Arnold Palmer Regional to honor the Youngstown native golf legend who grew up less than a mile from the runway where he watched the world’s first official airmail pickup in 1939 and later learned to fly himself. Nestled in the scenic Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania and operated by the Westmoreland County Airport Authority, the airport is located on 750 acres along routes 30 and 981 in Unity Township. It has an updated terminal and air-traffic control tower and a newly extended 8,224-foot-long runway. Twenty the ones dealing with vaccinations and how to handle that from an employee and a consumer point of view. Let’s take a non-COVID issue like electric cars, though, and see how airports can contribute: If the airports put in electric car charging stations, which we are in the process of doing, then there are 128 known places where you can stop and buy a sandwich and wait for your car to charge. You cannot tell me people will not start planning around that – or that we are not leading the way in this area. The airports become the go-to examples of how to get things done in the middle of change and we are the ones who are going to set the standard.” The Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania started life as the Longview