Quote Originally Posted by mmm View Post
wasn't the location of wiley post airport moved when lake hefner was created? was this hangar a leftover from the original airport? -M
Not until later. I rememberr seeing a Grumman Widgeon amphibian based at the original Wiley Post but using the lake for takeoff and landing. That must have been about 1940 or so but it might have been as late as 48. The original Wiley Post was still in use through the 40s and into the 50s. I remember, but haven't been able to find the story in the Oklahoman archives, a bootlegger flying a surplus C-47 overflying the runway one night and putting the plane down in the blackjack grove just south of Britton Road. He walked away, leaving the plane and its cargo behind.

What is now Wiley Post was originally called Tulakes, from its location between Hefner and Overholser, and was built in the early 40s to serve as OKC's commercial airport when Will Rogers became a military base. The name lives on today, on a Putnam City elementary school located a few blocks away.