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Grants-Milan Flight Service Station, New Mexico

Retro roadside
In Milan, New Mexico
0.5 mi from Route 66
National Register of Historic Places

This 1953 Grants-Milan Flight Service Station near Grants, NM, was built to support the Grants-Milan Municipal Airport. It earned a National Register listing in 2015 and became part of Western New Mexico's Aviation Heritage Museum, which remembers the pilots on the Los Angeles–Amarillo run of an early national airway. For Route 66 travellers it offers a look at how travel through the region took to the air.

What is Grants-Milan Flight Service Station?

A small airport building from the early 1950s. Flight service stations gave pilots information such as weather and routes, and this one was put up to serve the municipal airport shared by Grants and Milan. It is also listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties. When it was added to the national list in 2015, it formed part of the aviation heritage museum on the same site.

History of Grants-Milan Flight Service Station

The museum it belongs to honors early pilots on the Midcontinental Airway's Los Angeles–Amarillo stretch, a route across much of the same country Route 66 covers by road.

Visiting Grants-Milan Flight Service Station: tips

The station sits at the airport, just off the old road, and shares its location with Western New Mexico's Aviation Heritage Museum, so treat the two as one stop; it is a good fit for kids. Charley's Automotive Service, a classic Route 66 garage in Grants, is about 2 miles away, and the former mining town of Anaconda about 6.5 miles.

Practical info

Address: 1116 North Dale Carnutte Rd
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Western New Mexico Aviation Heritage Museum

Milan, New Mexico · 0.5 mi from Route 66

A small aviation museum at the Grants-Milan airport, housed with a 1953 flight service station.

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0.0 mi from Grants-Milan Flight Service Station

Charley's Automotive Service

Grants, New Mexico · on Route 66

A pumice-block garage, cafe and home from 1943 on Grants' stretch of Route 66, left much as it was.

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2.0 mi from Grants-Milan Flight Service Station

Anaconda, New Mexico

Anaconda, New Mexico · 0.5 mi from Route 66

The vanished company town of a 1950s uranium mill beside Route 66 northwest of Grants.

Ghost town

6.5 mi from Grants-Milan Flight Service Station

Mount Sedgwick

Grants, New Mexico · 9.3 mi from Route 66

The highest summit in the Zuni Mountains, rising to 9,256 feet west of Grants.

Nature & parks

11.2 mi from Grants-Milan Flight Service Station

Bluewater Lake State Park

Grants, New Mexico · 5.6 mi from Route 66

A high mountain lake in the Zuni Mountains, known for trout fishing, bird-watching and winter ice fishing.

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14.9 mi from Grants-Milan Flight Service Station

Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station

Thoreau, New Mexico · on Route 66

A 1935 Standard Oil station that moved to Thoreau in 1937 to serve a new stretch of Route 66.

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24.4 mi from Grants-Milan Flight Service Station

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