Swaney Airport (East Liverpool)

ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.

Raced
1955
State
Ohio
What's left
The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
On the site today
Columbiana County Airport
Raced on
An airport runway
First race
June 26, 1955
Surface
Runway
Location
Runway at the old Swaney Airport
People
  • Aero Club, sponsor (1955)
  • Mike Turk, airport owner (1966)
Elevation
1,153 ft (351 m)
Coordinates
40.67422, -80.64135

Starting June 26, 1955, the Aero Club sponsored drag races every Sunday on a runway at the old airport. In 1966 owner Mike Turk donated the Swaney Airport site for the new Columbiana County Airport.

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