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Grand Central Airport Terminal / Norfolk Airport Inc. / Granby Street Airfield
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"In 1929, Ben Epstein, a World War I pilot and airplane parts-scrap dealer began an air taxi service between Norfolk and Richmond from a small airfield on the northwest side of Granby Street and Taussig Boulevard. He called his operation the Grand Central Airport Terminal and later Norfolk Airport, Inc. …Epstein's administration building [a one-story stucco building] was torn down in the

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1980s. The Luddington Line, an airline of the late twenties, operated a daily passenger service from there to Washington, D.C., and later Eastern Air Lines used the field for a Norfolk-Richmond service." Because of the closeness of the field to the Navy's operations, Luddington and Eastern moved their operations to Glenrock Airport. The navy would finally purchase the property in 1940. (Carroll Walker, Norfolk: A Tricentennial Pictorial History, p. 146)