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C-220%u2014%u2014June 18, 1930%u2014%u2014Gary%u2014%u2014Gary Municipal Airport%u2014%u2014 171 pieces cancelled.No backstamp.At 9:30 am on June 16, 1930, the Second Annual Indiana Air Tour took off from the Hoosier Airport in Indianapolis. The now-gone field was located about a mile east of the Speedway, near Lafayette Road and Kessler Boulevard. Over the next five days, the Tour stopped at 18 Indiana airports, covering about 900 air miles. The cities visited included Terre Haute, Madison, Muncie, Goshen, South Bend, Plymouth, Lafayette, Princeton, Vincennes, Peru, Kokomo, and Rushville. By comparison, the first tour in 1929 flew 1,000 miles, and stopped at 29 airports. The purpose of both Air Tours was to demonstrate the strides aviation had taken, and to increase the public%u2019s confidence in the safety of flying. The Indiana Aircraft Trades Association sponsored the 40-plane tour, with Lee H. Hottell as tour director. He scheduled the fleet to take part in Evansville%u2019s airport dedication on June 16th. Two days later, on to the 18th, the group flew into Gary, where they participated in the Gary Airport dedication. Later the same day, the pilots flew on to Michigan City. And on the 21st, the tour concluded at Mars Hill Airport in Indianapolis, which was later renamed Stout Field, and was decommissioned in the 1950s.As was the case at many of the cities on the grand 1930 Air Tour, the Gary stop was sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion. Back then, Gary%u2019s population was over 100,000, with 45% being immigrants and their American-born children The Chamber and the Legion took great care to entertain both the local citizens and the fliers, and provided a sumptuous banquet at the Hotel Gary.