28 czerwca 2016 lotnisko Columbus w Ohio zostało oficjalnie przemianowane na John Glenn Columbus International Airport.
The legendary aviator and astronaut, 94, was celebrated at a ceremony on Tuesday marking the renaming of Port Columbus to John Glenn Columbus International Airport. The state bill changing the name was signed by Gov. John Kasich two weeks ago, and officially takes effect in September.
In addition to his world-famous career in aviation and aerospace, Glenn has had a relationship to the Columbus airport that is probably second to no one. Glenn, who turned 8 the month that Port Columbus opened in July 1929, recalled asking his parents to stop at the airport so he could watch the planes come and go when he was growing up in New Concord, 70 miles east of Columbus.
Glenn recalled "many teary departures and reunions" at the airport's original terminal on Fifth Avenue during his time as a military aviator during World War II. He and his wife Annie, who have been married 73 years, later kept a small Beechcraft plane at Lane Aviation on the airport grounds for many years, and he only gave up flying his own plane at age 90.
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