Hadley Field was an airport in South Plainfield, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It contained the Nike Missile Battery NY-65 and was used as a landing site for some of the nation's early air mail service.People - The Transportation Connection: A Brief History of the NJDOT, New Jersey Department of Transportation, October 2001. Accessed July 8, 2016. "1918 Full-time airmail service from Curtiss Field, Long Island to East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. used Hadley Field in South Plainfield as an alternate landing site." Hadley Field opened in 1924, and closed in 1928 when Newark Metropolitan Airport opened. The site has since been redeveloped into a strip mall and is currently owned by National Realty and Development Corp.
See also Aviation in the New York metropolitan area List of airports in New Jersey
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Night Airmail's first Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields – Hadley Field