In the 1930s and 1940s an airport was located at what is now 76th Avenue and old Brighton Road. The Rocky Mountain News called it the Dupont Airport, but Commerce City Senior Bobbie Crall, who worked at the Hazeltine Telephone office said that in 1947, '48 and '49 the airport was listed in the telephone book as Adams City Airpark. Carl Faller remembered the airfield being located a mile or a mile and a half south of Nine-Mile House in Dupont on Brighton Blvd.

Frances Melrose in her "Rocky Mountain Memories" column talked about a crash that happened on October 8, 1928. Charles F. Wilson, 44, a student pilot picked up a Lincoln Standard Plane at Union Field in Denver and flew it to the Dupont Airport. Wilson worked with Mary Belle Begole who asked him to take her and her sister flying with him. Since it was against the rules to take passengers, Wilson failed to tell the airport officials that he planned to take the sisters in the plane. Wilson later said that both of the women were crowded into the front seat of the plane. He was flying from the rear seat. The plane had dual controls, one in front and one in back.

Wilson flew to the Dupont Field. Witnesses said that the plane got off the ground but about 400 feet up the left wing dipped, the plane spun several times and crashed into a plowed field two miles west of Derby. Mary Belle Begole, 22 and Carol Begole, 19 both died in the crash and the pilot later died of the injuries he suffered.

Before he died Wilson said that he had asked the airport management to remove the controls from the front cockpit but they didn't. The controls froze.

A pioneer in aviation who helped build 40 planes and was field superintendent at Dupont Airport at that time, Frank Van Dersarl said that with two women in the front seat the control stick would not move more than 3 inches which limited the movement of the back seat control.

The girls' father George Begole, who three years later became Mayor of Denver and his wife, were out of town so they didn't learn of their daughters' death until that evening.

Charlene Kittinger of Dupont, who moved to this area in 1943, remembered a less dramatic plane crash in a letter she wrote to the Rocky Mountain News. Kittinger who lived across 80th Ave. stated that on a Sunday morning in 1952 or 1953, she heard a strange noise, ran to the window and saw a crop duster plane that had taken off and lost altitude. The plane was upside down. The pilot had attempted to take the plane between telephone lines and the fence but one wingtip caught on the telephone pole and the plane crashed. The pilot was fortunate - he had a cut on the nose. Kittinger said that the airport was torn down in 1953 or 1954.

Senior Bobbie Crall said that the runway was gravel and that one end of the airport was at Dupont School at 69th Ave. She recalled that in 1951 a plane crashed on the roof of a big house that sat next to where the telephone office is now located.

P & H Garage pulled the plane to Adams City Airpark with their wrecker. Deputy Sheriff Jack Greenemeier's uncle followed in his car and after that came Bobbie and her husband Link in their car, keeping people from passing the strange looking cargo being hauled by the P & H Garage wrecker.

Eva Matthews, another well-known Commerce City senior, remembered that at 72nd Avenue there was a helicopter in the Dupont area that could rise five feet off the ground.

Carl Faller said that Floyd Clymer invented the Floyd Clymer spotlight and Carl remembers flying with Clymer. Across from the airport was a huge dairy barn.

"I don't know how they got those tri-motor planes into the air." Carl says. "There were no beacons in that day."

A letter from a reader addressed to the Rocky Mountain News said that he had his first plane ride at the Dupont Airport in a little open plane. "They put a helmet and goggles on you and away you went. The charge I think was $5 for 15 minutes." The reader said. His last memory of the airport was at the start of World War II when glider pilots were trained at the Adams City a.k.a. Dupont Airport.