page_title: Columbus Municipal Airport (New Mexico)
hierarchical_section_title: Columbus Municipal Airport (New Mexico)
caption_attribution_description: 1st Aero Squadron on the Mexican US border, 1916, marked with "later Soviet-style red stars", as the US national insignia, on rudder and wings
context_page_description: Columbus Municipal Airport is an abandoned airport in New Mexico. Its origins date to 1916 when it was used by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps as a military airfield during the Pancho Villa Expedition. It was apparently closed and abandoned in the late 1970s. Today, efforts are being made to restore it to a general aviation airport.
  Columbus Municipal Airport is historically recognized as the birthplace of American air power.
context_section_description: Columbus Municipal Airport (IATA: CUS, FAA LID: 0NM0) is an abandoned airport in New Mexico.  Its origins date to 1916 when it was used by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps as a military airfield during the Pancho Villa Expedition. It was apparently closed and abandoned in the late 1970s.  Today, efforts are being made to restore it to a general aviation airport.
  Columbus Municipal Airport is historically recognized as the birthplace of American air power.
caption: 1st Aero Squadron on the Mexican US border, 1916, marked with "later Soviet-style red stars", as the US national insignia, on rudder and wings.
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