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Scholes International Airport is the former Galveston Municipal Airport that dates back to 1932. It was renamed Corrigan Airport in 1938 for Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, a Galveston native who worked at Ryan Aeronautical Company and helped to build Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis". Later he piloted his 1929 Curtiss Robin OX-5 monoplane named "Sunshine" from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland due to a "compass error" after being denied permission to fly that same trans-Atlantic route by the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce many times before. | Scholes International Airport is the former Galveston Municipal Airport that dates back to 1932. It was renamed Corrigan Airport in 1938 for Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, a Galveston native who worked at Ryan Aeronautical Company and helped to build Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis". Later he piloted his 1929 Curtiss Robin OX-5 monoplane named "Sunshine" from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland due to a "compass error" after being denied permission to fly that same trans-Atlantic route by the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce many times before. | ||