Municipal Airport – Caribou, Maine  

     Caribou Airport was dedicated on August 20 – 21, 1930, and at the time it was the only municipal airport in Maine, and also the furthest north in the United States.  Source: Presque Isle Star – Herald, “Airport Will Be Dedicated Next Week”, August 14, 1930, page 8.  

     On the night of March 29, 1944, a fire broke out in a wooden hangar at the Caribou Airport when an oil heater overturned.  The building was filled with aircraft, and the flames spread rapidly from one to the next.  At the time of the fire, a 26-year-old woman who worked for the U. S. Weather Bureau was on the roof taking a weather reading.  She became trapped by the flames and perished.  

     Source: The Waterbury Democrat, (Conn.), “1 Dead In Big Hangar Fire”, March 30, 1944