airport: 70% single-engine, 18% helicopter, 11% multi-engine, and 1% jet. Racing venue The airport served as a temporary road racing course for the eighteenth race of the 1954 NASCAR Grand National (now NASCAR Cup Series) season. Buck Baker qualified on the pole position for the race with a speed of . Al Keller won the 50-lap race over a course on June 13 in a field of 43 cars. The rest of the top five finishers were Joe Eubanks, Baker, Bill Claren, and Bob Grossman. Finishing sixth through tenth: Larry LaVois, Herb Thomas, Dick Rathman, Laird Bruner, and Lee Petty. See also New Jersey World War II Army Airfields List of airports in New Jersey References External links Linden Airport, official website Linden Airport (LDJ) from New Jersey DOT Airport Directory Aviation photos of Linden Airport at jetphotos.net Core Helicopters, a helicopter flight school located at the airport Aerial image as of March 1995 from USGS The National Map Airports in New Jersey Airports established in 1942 Transportation buildings and structures in Union County, New Jersey Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in New Jersey NASCAR tracks Linden, New Jersey 1942 establishments in New Jersey