This c. 1930 flyer advertised scenic airplane trips out of Cobleigh Airport in Lisbon.

Lisbon’s Cobleigh Airport was located in a field between the old Young-Cobleigh Tavern and Henry Pond along Route 302 just outside Lisbon Village. The airfield was on land owned by the Hanno family, who at the time owned the old tavern and surrounding fields. The airfield was first licensed by state and federal government in 1925. In 1922, a 45-year-old Littleton physician and surgeon, Dr. Arthur Downing, was the first person to land a plane on the airfield. Long flights to Littleton, Woodsville, Sugar Hill and “Barnet Dam” were $5. (The "Barnet Dam Site" was Comerford Dam on the Connecticut River between Monroe, NH and Barnet, VT, which was built from 1928-1931 on Fifteen Mile Falls.) Local flights over Lisbon and vicinity were $3.

In September of 1931, five hundred soldiers from the 5th Infantry Regiment of the U. S. Army pitched tents on the airfield on their way back to Fort Williams in Maine from Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont. The regiment’s band of 50 musicians gave a concert in Lisbon Square to thousands of spectators. By the spring of 1933, the airport was also used as a home field for the Lisbon Tigers, a new town baseball team. A boys’ 4-H competition was also held there, and a traveling circus under a big top along with a midway set up with rides used the field one summer. In October of 1933, a weekend-long air circus was put on by the New England Air Circus Association. It was reported that over 2,000 people were in attendance and 500 cars lined the main road. The era of the Cobleigh Airport ended in 1940.