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- 1 2 3 Andy Zieminski (February 7, 2008). "County's first black-owned airport becomes training ground". Gazette.net: Maryland Community Newspapers Online. Archived from the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
- ↑ Washington Afro-American newspaper article of August 16, 1941, as quoted in Clayton Davis. "Columbia Air Center, Croom, Maryland". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27.
- ↑ Courtland Milloy (23 December 1998). "One Man's Flight Plan". The Washington post.
- ↑ The Washington Post. 29 March 1989.Missing or empty
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