Northway Airport
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Hosted the 1957 Ohio State Championship drag races
- A landing plane crashed while dodging two drag racers in September 1957
- Raced
- 1957
- State
- Ohio
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- On the site today
- Residential, apartment and commercial development
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- May 30, 1957
- Surface
- Paved
- Location
- Northeast of Morse and Karl Roads, north of Columbus
- People
- American Timing Association, sponsor (1957)
- Marion Wildcats car club, race planner (1957)
- Elevation
- 896 ft (273 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.06318, -82.96782
Northway Airport was a private field north of Columbus. It hosted the Ohio State Championship drag races on Memorial Day, Thursday, May 30, 1957, sponsored by the American Timing Association, with the Marion Wildcats car club doing much of the planning. County commissioners had been fighting the airport’s use as a drag strip in court since that spring. Their case got stronger on September 29, 1957, when a small plane landing on the grass runway, which crossed the paved drag strip, swerved to miss two drag racers by ten feet and crashed upside down. The three people aboard weren’t seriously hurt. The airport was northeast of Morse and Karl Roads. It was sold off piece by piece for houses, apartments and businesses, and nothing of it was left by the late 1980s.
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