Archive photo by Bob Sherrill from the Chattanooga News-Free Press via ChattanoogaHistory.com / In the summer of 1964, officials of Eastern Air Lines gave away a 2.5-foot scale model of a DC-8 passenger airplane as part of a charity event for disabled children. It was the same summer the Lovell Field Airport in Chattanooga completed a $2.7 million expansion.
Looking back, 1964 was a landmark year for aviation in Chattanooga.
In the summer of 1964, a $2.7 million expansion of Chattanooga's Lovell Field — now the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport — was completed.
