Tallahassee Community College and a local non-profit organization are planning to build a museum on TCC”s campus, which used to be the home of an airfield during World War II. The museum complex will be built on the southwest edge of TCC’s campus by 2024.
The airfield that used to occupy the site that is now TCC was named after Dale Mabry, a Tallahassee native and U.S. Air Army captain who died in a 1922 dirigible fire. That accident has been referred to as one of the worst disasters in American aeronautic history. Mabry also had a highway named after him in Tampa, where he lived.
Read more about the history of Tallahassee’s Dale Mabry Airfield and the Dale Mabry Air Field Museum that will preserve this important part of the city’s history.
Airplanes “on the line” at Dale Mabry Airfield in 1939. (Photo: The State Library and Archives of Florida)
