The Archive · 1938

Japan's Biggest Airport To Open Tomorrow

Huge Field Result of Two — Years Work

Tokyo, June 8.

Japan's biggest airport, covering 245 acres and completed after two "ers of work, will be opened on June 10 at Yonago in Tottori Prefecture.

The air field, which was started in 1936, will be used as a stopping point for planes flying between Tokyo and Hsinking om a four-hour-and-a-half schedule. Yonago is located in central Japan. The airport on the shores of the Japan Sea.

It is equipped with wireless telegraph facilities, two hangars, a motor factory, oil depot and other buildings constructed with donations from residents of the prefecture to the Min. istry of Communications. Pilots will be trained under the direction of the Aviation Bureau of the Ministry. of Communications.—Domei.

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