įrom the airport's opening until the early 1980s, the airport's primary runway was Runway 18/36, a 6,076-foot runway with an ILS approach, enabling all-weather approaches, and a USAF certified High TACAN approach for practice by Air Force aircraft based at Tyndall AFB, near Panama City. The protestors were arrested and removed, and later served prison sentences after the Supreme Court rejected their case in Dresner vs City of Tallahassee on a technicality. The airport restaurant, Savarin, was designated 'Whites Only' and closed rather than serve a racially-mixed group of clergy and activists. In June 1961, less than two months after it opened, the airport was the site of Freedom Rider protests. Aboard the flight were Tallahassee Mayor Joe Cordell, State Comptroller Ray Green, Tallahassee City Commissioners Davis Atkinson, George Taff, Hugh Williams, Tallahassee City Manager Arvah Hopkins, Tallahassee City Clerk-Auditor George White, Airport Manager Flagg Chittenden, and Ernest Menendez, Frank Deller, James Calhoun, John Ward and Jeff Lewis, all of the Tallahassee-Leon County Chamber of Commerce. Tallahassee Municipal replaced the city's first airport, Dale Mabry Field, which closed that year.Įastern Airlines opened the airport by ferrying city, state and chamber of commerce officials. An aerial demonstration was performed by U.S.

The flag of the United States was presented to the City of Tallahassee by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I fighter ace and Chairman of the Board of Eastern Airlines.

The airport began as Tallahassee Municipal Airport with a ceremony on April 23, 1961. Mayor Joe Cordell and the City Commission photographed at the new Tallahassee Municipal Airport on March 28, 1961.

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