Did you know that Forsyth once had an airport–and that Cary Bittick parked his airplane there in a hangar?

It was located on Highway 42 North just outside the city limits.

Pilots flying into Forsyth had an official advisory:  There may be cows on the runway.  [It was a grass, not a paved, air strip.]

The Zellners ran a restaurant nearby.  Capitalizing on its proximity to the airport, they called it “The Skyway.”

Of all the pilots using the air field, John Boatwright was probably the most colorful and daring.  With the young Harold Clarke in the passenger seat, he once flew so low over the Monroe County Courthouse that Clarke had to look up to see the courthouse clock.  [This is Clarke’s written testimony.]  That same flight Boatwright flew over the Clerk house so low that Clarke’s five year old nephew was able to see and identify his uncle, the future jurist. Clarke later said that in that flight he “surrendered all hope of survival…pondering the hereafter.”

While news rocked the town that Boatwright had been killed in a fiery airplane accident, he calmly walked up to his house, having bailed out before the crash.