Aviation View Jan 2023

102 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4 e beginnings TIONHUB NATIONAL AIRPORT: f you are flying into Fargo, North Dakota – then you are flying to Hector International Airport. Taking its name from the original landowner almost a hundred years ago. On September 9, 1927, Martin Hector leased a quarter-section of land at the northwest corner of Fargo to the city for five years at $1 per year. Four years later he gave that land to the city and after that Hector and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Fred M. (Margaret) Hector, donated several additional parcels totaling nearly 50 acres that were incorporated into the present airport property, along with acreage purchased from several adjacent landowners. The year after the airport opened, Northwest Airlines itself, only a year old as a company, began scheduled weekly flights into Fargo – they stopped for a year or two, then in 1931 regular I