Brainerd’s 1st airfield took off in popularity
Before there was a Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport, there was an airfield where Henry Rosko housed the first airfield in the region in the 1920s. By the 1930s, his airfield “could not be expanded to meet the growing demands of the aviation industry,” according to airport officials. 7:00 am, Apr. 19, 2021 ×
Historian Carl Faust holds the Brainerd historic site sign that was placed near the site of the Rosko Field hangar in 2017. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch
It took brothers Henry and Peter Rosko to get Brainerd’s first airfield off the ground.
Henry Rosko housed the first airfield in the region in the 1920s, according to Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport officials.