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The airport was constructed in the mid-1930s by Huey Long on a man-made peninsula dredged by the Orleans Levee Board, jutting into Lake Pontchartrain on the Eastern New Orleans side of the Industrial Canal.

It was originally named Shushan Airport after Levee Board president Abraham Shushan.

The airport was inaugurated on 10 February 1934.

Visitors noticed that every doorknob, window sill, countertop, and plumbing fixture either had the name or the initials of Abe Shushan.

The airport was soon thereafter renamed New Orleans Airport, and was assigned the airport code " NEW ", which it retains despite its current name.