It was July 2, 1927 at 1:00 o’clock when the National Air Tour landed at Rodgers Field. Several of the pilots on the 1927 Tour were sponsored by local clubs including the Mercater Club and the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania. A committee of the Pittsburgh Association of Credit men gave a dinner at the Nixon Hotel for Tour pilot Frank Hawks and his wife. Other pilots ate an informal dinner at Hotel Schenley and enjoyed a theater party at Duquesne Garden. Local took particular interest in talking with E.W. Cleveland who was from Bridgeville. Cleveland was flying a WACO bi-plane.

An estimated 5,000 people witnessed the 1931National Air Tour visit to Rodgers Field. One of the “hits” of the visit was a Bellanca aircraft powered by a Packard Diesel engine and flown by Walter E. Lees. Lees and Frederick Brossy had just established a worlds record non-refueling endurance flight of 84 hours and 33 minutes. Local George “Speed” Dickson, a resident of Pittsburgh was given a standing ovation at the field.