Page "Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport" Paragraph 6

Vertical aerial pics of DTW ( and the Detroit area ) from 1949 and later years at 1956 marked a major turning point in the history of the growing airport.

American Airlines agreed to shift operations to Detroit-Wayne and did so in October 1958, accompanied soon after by four other carriers.

Also, the Civil Aviation Administration ( by now known as the Federal Aviation Agency ) announced that year the inclusion of Detroit-Wayne in the first group of American airports to receive new long-range radar equipment, enabling the airport to become the first inland airport in the United States certified for jet aircraft operations.

Also in 1958, the L. C.

Smith ( South ) Terminal was completed to accommodate the new carriers, and the airport was given its present name.