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CAE celebrates 80 years of flight ✈️

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CAE Mini : CAE celebrates 80 years of flight ✈️

A look back at Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) in 1965.

Photo provided by Richland Library’s digital archives

Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) is celebrating 80 years of flight on the airport’s campus by highlighting each decade and the monumental moments that helped shape the hometown airport Soda Citizens know and love today.

Follow #CAEcelebrates80 on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for a stroll down memory lane — complete with vintage photos, old newspaper clippings, fun facts + more.

Happy birthday, CAE. 🎉

Fly through history.*

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