# 1960s AIRPORT PROMOTIONAL FILM "AIRPORTS SERVE THE COMMUNITY" 79254

This 1960s color film advocates the importance of how small airports serve the community. It is a Jack Robinette Production. It opens with a Piper Comanche landing and the control tower and controllers shown (:28-:45). Travelers leave their cars in the parking lot, carry suitcases into the terminal, and board a plane (:48- 1:14 ). Airports serve the community other than passengers. A large container of boxes is unloaded from a plane. Baby chicks are unboxed after shipping ( 1:15 - 1:50 ). The control tower has weather instruments on top. Inside the air controllers communicate with pilots by radio or by flashing a signal lamp (the film says they are called baker lights) ( 2:22 - 3:08 ). A Shell fuel truck pulls up to a plane and refuels it ( 3:10 - 3:30 ). A student pilot checks the mechanical parts of a Piper Cherokee ( 3:32 - 3:59 ). A Piper PA-30 (N8771Y) is hand-towed into a hangar for an annual inspection and its engine shown ( 4:00 - 4:25 ). The student pilot and female instructor get in the Cherokee and check the instrument panel ( 4:26 - 4:53 ). Hobbyists fly vintage planes, such as the 1940 Waco UPF-7 (N30141) ( 4:55 - 5:07 ). A family gets out of a Piper with their dog ( 5:09 - 5:32 ). A salesman looks over a map with the female pilot to take short flights to sales calls. Shown behind them is a Champion 7KCAB (N5156X) and a Piper PA-28-140 (N8153N) ( 5:33 - 6:10 ). A helicopter lifts off. Passenger disembark from a LA Airways Sikorsky helicopter (N305V) before it…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/79254AirportsServeTheCommunity)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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