Just a little over 20 years earlier, two brothers "just up the road" in Dayton, Ohio had made history as they made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903, just south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1910, what was reported as the first airplane built in Western Hills was built on the "old Cheviot Race Track" (just beyond the western end of Trevor Avenue). The airplane was said to have been built by a man name, "Mr. Haddock" who arrived to the neighborhood by balloon and began building the airplane. He was able to fly his craft approximately five feet off the ground in May 1910, but then broke quickly after that from a strong wind storm. Aviation fever" was sweeping the land and Cincinnati's first airport, Lunken Airport, opened on the east side of Hamilton County in 1925. Not to be left behind, the westside of Hamilton County felt there was a need for an airport in the still-rural land of Bridgetown.
