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Stewart Airport to be renamed
National Express Corporation, the company that operates Stewart International Airport at Newburgh, is going to change the name of the airport to New York-Hudson Valley International Airport, MidHudsonNews.com has learned.
The official announcement will be made on Monday, Stewart Marketing Manager Tanya Vanasse said Friday.
Stewart Airport was named for the Stewart family of Newburgh. In the mid-1930s, Archie Stewart convinced his father and uncle to deed over some 200 acres of their family farm to the City of Newburgh for development of an airport.
Stewart's daughter, Mary Stewart Hafer told MidHudsonNews.com on Friday that she is quite upset about the name change. She had assured her father she would support the airport's name for the long haul.
''I promised him when he was alive that I would do everything in my power to see that the name wasn't changed,'' she said. ''He thought about the fact that it might be changed after he was dead and I promised him then that I would do whatever I could to see that they wouldn't do that.''
Archie Stewart's grandson, Thomas Hafer, is furious about the name change. ''If the airport were named Rockefeller or Roosevelt the name would never be changed, and it is shameful to take advantage of those who have done so much for Newburgh but who have no political power,'' he said. ''If a more deive name is needed, the Airport could be called Stewart-Newburgh, or Stewart-Hudson, much like Washington Reagan.''
Hafer said Newburgh ''should be proud to have citizens like Archie Stewart, and should not allow their names to be stricken from their rightful place. What message does this send to other citizens who wish to help the city?'' He called on elected officials of Newburgh ''to overrule this callous and short-sighted name change.''
The Stewart name will remain at the airport. The terminal will be renamed the Archie Stewart Terminal and a Stewart Family exhibit will be permanently on display.
The airport was originally developed as an air training facility for West Point cadets as World War II was brewing.
National Express won a 99 year lease to operate the facility almost six years ago. The state, which previously operated the airport, continues to serve as the landlord for the property.
National Express Corporation, the company that operates Stewart International Airport at Newburgh, is going to change the name of the airport to New York-Hudson Valley International Airport, MidHudsonNews.com has learned.
The official announcement will be made on Monday, Stewart Marketing Manager Tanya Vanasse said Friday.
Stewart Airport was named for the Stewart family of Newburgh. In the mid-1930s, Archie Stewart convinced his father and uncle to deed over some 200 acres of their family farm to the City of Newburgh for development of an airport.
Stewart's daughter, Mary Stewart Hafer told MidHudsonNews.com on Friday that she is quite upset about the name change. She had assured her father she would support the airport's name for the long haul.
''I promised him when he was alive that I would do everything in my power to see that the name wasn't changed,'' she said. ''He thought about the fact that it might be changed after he was dead and I promised him then that I would do whatever I could to see that they wouldn't do that.''
Archie Stewart's grandson, Thomas Hafer, is furious about the name change. ''If the airport were named Rockefeller or Roosevelt the name would never be changed, and it is shameful to take advantage of those who have done so much for Newburgh but who have no political power,'' he said. ''If a more deive name is needed, the Airport could be called Stewart-Newburgh, or Stewart-Hudson, much like Washington Reagan.''
Hafer said Newburgh ''should be proud to have citizens like Archie Stewart, and should not allow their names to be stricken from their rightful place. What message does this send to other citizens who wish to help the city?'' He called on elected officials of Newburgh ''to overrule this callous and short-sighted name change.''
The Stewart name will remain at the airport. The terminal will be renamed the Archie Stewart Terminal and a Stewart Family exhibit will be permanently on display.
The airport was originally developed as an air training facility for West Point cadets as World War II was brewing.
National Express won a 99 year lease to operate the facility almost six years ago. The state, which previously operated the airport, continues to serve as the landlord for the property.
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