Business View Magazine | March 2020

208 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 THE TERRE HAUTE REGIONAL AIRPORT The best is yet to come before, but was denied transcontinental service by the federal government because it was too small. When Hulman Field opened in 1944, its three runways quickly drew commercial traffic. First aboard was TWA with cargo and passenger service. In 1946, the U.S. Weather Bureau transferred its facilities to Hulman from Cox, as did the Civil Aeronautics Administration (today, the Federal Aviation Authority). In the early 1950s, a second airline, Delta C&S, T he Terre Haute Regional Airport is a public- use airport, six miles east of Terre Haute, in Vigo County, Indiana. Originally called Hulman Field, the Airport dates to 1943, when ground was broken on a 638-acre site donated to the City of Terre Haute by local businessman, Anton “Tony” Hulman, Jr., who also bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1945 and brought racing back to the race course after a four-year hiatus following World War II. The new airport was meant to replace the city’s first facility, Cox Field, which was built just a year