Vincent Airport, located just west of Covington, was built in the late 1960's and was the site of the Southern Parachute Center, a group of skydivers who were determined to set a world record.
Covington Vincent Airport, northwest of Covington High
Vincent Airport, a turf runway, was named after World War II aviator and aircraft designer H. Farley Vincent. In the late 1940's he and Robert Monsted designed and built The Monsted-Vincent MV-1 airplane. It had four Continental C-85 engines with seats for 4 to 6 people and a “potty.” The plane was to provide Corporation Executive Transport of the post-WWII era. It cruising speed was about 150 miles per hour.
Monsted and Vincent, two WWII aviators, constructed the aircraft at the Michoud plant in Eastern New Orleans, LA. With eight hours of fuel it had endurance that would permit riding out or skirting around bad weather. Another feature was the rearward retracting main landing gear. Its wingspan was about 50 feet and its gross weight, about 6000 lbs.—cruise speed, about 150 mph. (Info from the EAAVintage.org website)
Photographs 2025 of Vincent Airport
