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I really miss that old airport. This coming from a multigenerational Denver native. Dad had a little different opinion on this being a 30 year United pilot :-) RIP, dad.
A good friend of mine lived out in Montebello then. I remember going over to his place having a few beers and watching the parade :-) it was kind of sad for me growing up in Denver watching the old airport go down the road.
Invaluable video. Thank you. In the second half of 1989 my family flew on Continental Airlines from Sydney to the US, via Honolulu. I recall that we flew to Denver at some point. Looking at a route map from back then, it seems likely we flew Honolulu direct to Denver, rather than from Honolulu to Los Angeles. If this is correct, we must have flown into Stapleton. I was too young (and probably too jetlagged) to appreciate the experience at the time, though I recall the lovely stewardesses and how kind they were. I wish I'd known I was in an airport that was only a few years away from shutting forever and on an airline that would cease to exist. I also wish I'd paid closer attention to what aircraft I was travelling on. I assume it was a 747-100 though maybe a DC-10?
Jug Hill, Peter Peelgrane, Mike Silva, and Rob Marshall (with his dog) were the news helicopter pilots who ruled the Denver skies and airwaves from the late 1970s until the late 2000s. Those familiar names we'll never hear again.
Stapleton was more than sufficient for the Denver area. But Pena wanted to get Denver on the map so to speak and create a huge mega-metropolis with DIA and a bunch of other ambitious projects.
I saw a few Battleship United planes.. while Stapleton will be missed (and is now damn near nonexistent as it has since been turned into housing.. all the remains is the control tower.. and the neighborhood bearing the same name.. has since changed as well..)
I worked for Continental in Seattle but would go to Denver a lot and went to Stapleton more times than I can count. Thank you for this video of time gone by. I would trade my house in right now to go back to these times.
Can you please let me know if the security checkpoints were in front of each concourse, or right next to the ticket counters (where if you wanted to go from A to E w/out having to re-enter, you could do it.
Question for anyone who knows, please forgive my ignorance here. When they shut down an airport like this, are airlines offered to create a hub to use the entire airport or is that just not feasible?
I'm a Denver native, born in 1957. In the 60's, Dad would take us kids to just outside Stapleton, and we'd watch the planes go overhead just a hundred feet or so during take-offs and landings. When friends or family flew, we'd gather up the family and head to the airport. We'd gather around the gate to wait for their arrival or to see them off. In the eighties, I worked for Continental Airlines out of the flight kitchen on Smith Road, catering flights. That was one of my all-time favorite jobs. What I miss most about Stapleton is the openness and freedom I felt there. Sometimes, while waiting for my flights to cater, I would wander the concourses late at night. Nobody bothered me, there was no TSA to hassle people, and the airport just felt peaceful and calm. Stapleton International Airport has always been and will always be a huge part of my life.
Right when I saw the start of the ground vehicles driving them all the way from Stapleton airport all the way to Denver International Airport I first thought how in the world do they have the energy on the ground vehicles itself because I didn't think they'd last that long until a couple of seconds later they said United Airlines had a good few that broke down....1% of the fleet is definitely good news since I thought it'd be much higher due to the extremely long drive.
Yup the APU is so damned loud like the G200 it’s parked away from everything else. Junk like the G200 “Galaxy” it trys to “replace”. Get rid of this piece of junk and let Gulfstream design a quality product from the start.
I love the Aztec flew in one in 1987 in Ireland my home country I was only 13 flew over the David Bowie concert in slane co. Meath over slane castle was amazing
It was so stupid to close Stapleton and build DIA. First, all they needed and had room for was another concourse. Second, it was 10 minutes to the financial district downtown. Third, we all know about the shady dealings with the contractors building DIA. Fourth, DIA is out in the middle of nowhere and there is lots of wind shear. Not to mention it is built in an old Native American burial ground. Lastly the place is so creepy.
I was born and raised in Denver left in 1977 floor there to go to Florida I loved Stapleton. I became a plane spotter and it was an amazing airport now I’m in Florida. Went to the new airport in 2016. It’s nice but nothing like Stapleton.Stapleton was amazing.
