BLUEBIRD AERODROME

HANGAR

Gordonsville Airport Celebrating 72 years of service! (1936-2008)

Coordinates:

N38-09.36 W078-09.95
Mag Var: 6 deg W

Driving: 3.0 miles N of the town of Gordonsville, VA

6.0 miles S Orange, VA

18123 Gordonsville, VA (address for directions only, not a mailing address)

Bluebird Aerodrome Hangar
(PHYSICAL ADDRESS ONLY)
18123 James Madison Highway
Gordonsville, VA 22942
United States
ph: 540-903-6624
alt: 540-903-4916
bluebird@bluebirdaerodrome.com

GVE History

THIS PAGE IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

We have found documentation and charts to support GVE's existence as early as 1937. We believe it may have been active prior to being on charts in 1937 and currently seek information relating to it being used as part of a mail route.

Hard Evidence
We have purchased a 1940 chart showing GVE located at its orginal site where it is currently in use (We found the map at Sun and Fun this year!). The current operating field is often confused with the reliver field several miles away. This map shows both fields.
Burnie Herndon has also found copies of the orginal charter document for GVE stating it was orginally chartered in 1937. We know it was in operation prior to being chartered in 1937 and are still looking for newspaper articles or pictures to show it in operation prior to the charter of 1937.

Special Thanks
Caleb Glick, Burnie Herndon, Buck Carlton and others for their help with finding documentation to support GVE's place in history.
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Gordonsville History

Other News

We hope to have several items to display on this page related to the history of GVE in the future. Please contact us if you have information relating to the operation of GVE prior to 1936.

History behind the work

in progress on the historical marker for GVE.

Bob and Faith Olen both shared a passion for aviation. When Bob met Faith he was a retired Chief Warrant Office 04 from the Navy. He was building a Celebrity Biplane. Faith was just looking into purchasing a kit and had been building small models of airplanes. Later, Bob gave her his Navy flight jacket as a pre-engagement gift. After they were married they had a hangar at GVE (Gordonsville, VA) where they happily flew their champ – which was actually a present, from Bob, to Faith – and worked on the Celebrity together. Bob always wanted to place an historical marker for GVE to help preserve its place in the history of aviation. Bob died of a heart attack March 6, 2006. In Bob’s memory, and as a memorial, we are working on getting the historical marker he always wanted placed at GVE.

July 31, 2008

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
French writer (1900 - 1944)

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