Teterboro Airport was built
on land acquired in 1917 by Walter C. Teter. It was used by
North American Aviation during the first World War as an aircraft
manufacturing site and afterwards as a base of operations
for aircraft designer
Anthony Fokker. It was
taken over by the Army Air Corps during World War II and purchased
by the Port Authority on April 1, 1949. The oldest airfield in
the region, Teterboro is designated as a "reliever" airstrip used
mainly by corporate and private operators. Its control tower houses
an aeronautical museum, the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame.
