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I needed some
information on airstrips or small airports everyone had forgotten about. After
all, although I am writing fiction, things have to be realistic. In my mind I
had planned a scene at an airport. In fact I had written the entire scene
without knowing if the airport I had described really existed. For the record.
Whether it would exist or not, was not a matter of life or death. As said, I’m
writing fiction, so I can make up any airport I like. But then again, the real
thing would make things a lot more convincing.
To my surprise the
answer was easy to find. Unfortunately it was far more difficult to decide
which of the abandoned airfields I was going to use. The website “Abandoned and little known airfields” by Paul Freeman, describes details of no less than
1,911 airfields in all 50 states of the US. History and mystery combined, so it’s
said on the website. True stories and photos about days long forgotten. I
enjoyed reading about those airfields. Some are still used, others partly or
completely vanished. But all of them have a story worth to be remembered. Paul
Freeman has made sure, these stories are remembered.
How about the Fantasy
Island airstrip? Well, first of all it’s an island, guests were supposed to
arrive by seaplane. The original series (1977-1984) was primarily filmed in
Burbank, California. The coastline as seen in the opening scenes in fact is the
coastline of the island Kauai, Hawaii. The plane with new guests arriving, was
filmed in the lagoon behind the Queen Anne Cottage in Los Angeles County Arboretum
and Botanic Gardens.