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items 2 and 7 — purchase, opening, county purchase; the governing authority
The county's field began as a manufacturer's speculation: in 1929 Vincent Bendix purchased 610 acres northwest of South Bend, and Bendix Municipal Airport opened on the ground in 1933. The succession the floor requires followed on the floor's own dates: in July 1936 the county's voters approved the purchase — a $210,000 bond — and the field passed to public ownership, becoming the area's first publicly owned airport, governed in its modern form by the St. Joseph County Airport Authority, which owns and operates it today across some 2,200 acres with three runways. No corresponding course exists to print for this township: no field on Olive Township ground was ever purchased, opened, or governed by any authority, and the township's governing-authority answer is the county's — the same Airport Authority whose foreign-trade zone (FTZ 125) covers this county, carried in the exports leg. Runway and terminal growth, priced, belongs to the field's home build; the boundary entry carries the succession and the authority, which are what this township's record needs of it.
Sources:
- South Bend International Airport, official history and authority record (the 610-acre purchase of 1929; the 1933 opening; the July 1936 county purchase vote and $210,000 bond).
- U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone Board record for FTZ 125 (grantee: St. Joseph County Airport Authority).