New Hanover Airport
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Dick Trythall set a 98 MPH track record on November 20, 1960
- Raced
- 1958-60
- State
- Pennsylvania
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- On the site today
- Vacant land
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- July 6, 1958
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Oiled dirt
- Location
- New Hanover Airport
- People
- Pottstown Roamers Motorcycle Club, organizer (1958-)
- Elevation
- 278 ft (85 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.30058, -75.59100
The Pottstown Roamers Motorcycle Club held its first AMA drag race at the airport on July 6, 1958, on an oiled dirt eighth-mile strip, and ran four drag races that year. The airport also had a quarter-mile dirt oval. On November 20, 1960, Dick Trythall of Bucktown took top eliminator and set a track record at 98 MPH. The airport is gone now, and the land is still vacant despite occasional talk of developing it.
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