 During the 1950s and 1960s, the city also boasted its own airport, a single runway grass airstrip used mainly by private airplanes.Longwood Airport was located on the west side of the city and on the north side of State Road 434, until it was closed and developed into tract housing that became The Woodlands subdivision in the mid-1960s.In 1965, the City served as a film site and backdrop, representing a fictional south Florida town adjacent to a Seminole Indian tribe reservation in the Universal Studios film, "Johnny Tiger".