Robert Mueller Municipal Airport
| Robert Mueller Municipal Airport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Former airport entrance
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| Airport type | Public, Defunct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Austin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Greater Austin Area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Austin, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | October 14, 1930 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | May 21, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 632 ft / 193 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°18′00″N 097°42′00″W / 30.30000°N 97.70000°WCoordinates: 30°18′00″N 097°42′00″W / 30.30000°N 97.70000°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Passengers from The Daily Texan, FAA Airport Diagram
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| Passengers | 6,000,000+ |
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Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (/ˈmɪlər/ MILL-ər) was the first civilian airport built in Austin, Texas, operating from 1930 to 1999. It was replaced as Greater Austin's main airport by the Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Located a few miles northeast of downtown Austin, the airport was named after Robert Mueller, a city commissioner who had died while in office in January 1927. Mueller was identified with the three letter "AUS" airport code and this "AUS" code was then assigned to the Austin Bergstrom International Airport in 1999.
As the need for commercial air service became clear in the 1920s, Austin voters supported a bond election to build a municipal airport for the city in 1928. The airport was constructed a few miles northeast of downtown, on what was then the edge of the city. The airport began operation on 14 October 1930, although commercial service would not begin until 1936.
In the 1950s, developers began building residential areas beneath the flight paths of Mueller and, in parallel, the number of arrivals and departures at the airport increased dramatically as the city's population grew. The April 1957 OAG lists a total of 33 weekday departures operated by three airlines: fifteen on Braniff International Airways, ten on Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) and eight on Continental Airlines. No nonstop flights were operated beyond San Antonio, San Angelo, Dallas Love Field (DAL) or Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) at this time. The first scheduled nonstop beyond Texas was flown from Mueller with a Boeing 727 operated by Braniff to Washington Dulles Airport (IAD) in 1968; that flight lasted until 1980. It was the only nonstop out of the state until Braniff attempted to serve Chicago O'Hare Airport (ORD) nonstop in 1978.
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