Mason City Municipal Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1955
- State
- Iowa
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- Location
- Mason City Airport runway
- People
- Road Gents car club, proposed race organizer (1955)
- Elevation
- 1,192 ft (363 m)
- Coordinates
- 43.15692, -93.33426
In November 1955 the Road Gents car club got preliminary approval to drag race on one of Mason City Airport’s runways, with conditions: insurance for spectators, switching runways when the wind shifted for air traffic, and entering and leaving the airport together as a group. More talks were to follow. Whether the club met the conditions and actually raced there isn’t known.
Background
Mason City Municipal Airport is six miles west of downtown, just east of Clear Lake. It's still open for general aviation, and its airline service is subsidized through the federal Essential Air Service program.
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