Provincetown Municipal Airport | Michael A. Leger Memorial Sightseeing Shack | Formerly passenger terminal I
The structure at left was the first passenger terminal. It’s now the Michael A. Leger Memorial Sightseeing Shack. [Provincetown-Boston Airline Slide Show; John Van Arsdale, Producer / Provincetown Community TV / Vimeo 4983497]
Text last updated on 26 February 2017 | Unless I’m mistaken, the modest shack that now serves sightseeing flights was the original passenger terminal. I draw that conclusion from a slide show by John C. Van Arsdale Sr. in the 1980s that survives as a video, made available by Provincetown Community TV through Vimeo. Though of poor quality after multiple reproductions, these are unique glances of the airport in its early decades, the story told by the man who shaped the place. The photo here is of the building Van Arsdale identified as the original terminal. It looks like the current sightseeing shack, at least in this fuzzy version. Michael A. Leger, namesake of the shack, was a chairman of the municipal Airport Commission. In recent years, the sightseeing service was offered by Russ Kimball and Roger Putnam, through Race Point Aviation.
¶ Republished on 5 January 2024.