Scappoose Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Scappoose Industrial Airpark
- Hosted an NHRA regional championship in 1955
- Bud Haines set a world record for small-engine fuel dragsters, 156.65 mph, in 1958
- Raced
- 1952-59
- State
- Oregon
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Scappoose Industrial Airpark
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- 1952
- Last race
- 1959
- Location
- Scappoose airport, near Portland
- People
- Columbia Timing Association, race organizer (1956)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 57 ft (17 m)
- Coordinates
- 45.77191, -122.86592
Scappoose, near Portland, held drag races at its airport as early as 1952, and an NHRA regional championship there in 1955. On May 27, 1956, at a Columbia Timing Association race, police tried to arrest fifteen minors for drinking beer, and 500 spectators surrounded the officers in protest, nearly causing a riot. The drivers were reportedly cooperative. In early June 1956 the county court banned drag racing at the airport. On July 13, 1958, Bud Haines set a world speed record for fuel dragsters under 300 cubic inches at 156.65 mph. In 1959 the county court stopped the races after a near riot over minors arrested for drinking. The airport is now Scappoose Industrial Airpark.
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