Claremont Municipal Airport

9 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 7 CLAREMONT MUNICI PAL AI RPORT (OR CMA) the post to the many businessmen enjoying local hotels and cabins. American commercial aviation developed quickly in the years immediately following the Great War. And Fogg found himself hailed as New Hampshire’s “prince of aviators” for his regional role in these efforts. Northeast Airways was New Hampshire’s first commercial aviation firm to offer charter passenger service, beginning in 1928. But the Great Depression dealt a death blow to this Pendleton continues that limited delivery of air mail began in New Hampshire with the circuit route that Fogg established at Lake Winnipesaukee in the summer of 1923. Theatre- goers will recollect that playwright Thornton Wilder mentions this beautiful lake, the largest in the Granite State, in his immortal classic about small-town New Hampshire life in the better days of the 1890’s and early 1900’s, Our Town. Fogg flew a seaplane around the lake to deliver