SIGNED Copy! John F. Kennedy International Airport doll and racing stripes on its

and racing stripes on its rounded wings

and filled with vivid and unforgettable detail

When the US entered the war in 1941

a crewmate uttered the now iconic words

and 18 months

SIGNED Copy! John F. Kennedy International Airport doll and racing stripes on itsSigned by Museum Curator and Long Island Aviation Historian, Joshua Stoff John F. Kennedy International Airport opened in 1948, after the realization set in that the newly built LaGuardia Airport was unable to handle the volume of air traffic for New York City. Pushed through by New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the airport was to be located 14 miles from Manhattan, in Jamaica Bay, Queens, on the site of the old Idlewild Golf Course. For its first