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In 1941, McHenry Tichenor, former publisher of the Valley Morning Star newspaper, broke ground on a new radio station at a site known as Harbenito, between Harlingen and San Benito. [3] The "Harbenito station", KGBS on 1240 kHz, signed on the air at dawn on August 20, 1941. [4] It was the third radio station in the Valley. [5]
Harlingen (/ ˈ h ɑːr l ɪ n dʒ ɪ n / HAR-lin-jin) [6] is a city in Cameron County in the central region of the Rio Grande Valley of the southern part of the U.S. state of Texas, about 30 miles (48 km) from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Apr. 23—HARLINGEN — After years of planning, city and state leaders are ready to break ground Wednesday on a $20 million project aimed at building Valley International Airport's tallest ...
Now, a veterans group is planning to build a 6 1/2-foot-high black granite monument dedicated to the 23 Harlingen soldiers killed during the war from 1961 to 1975. As part of the project, city ...
Big projects have Harlingen airport soaring to new heights. Tribune. Fernando Del Valle, Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas. February 29, 2024 at 11:46 PM ... EU Digital Services Act; Terms and ...
An auxiliary airfield was built at Port Isabel, Texas to support training and flight operations at Harlingen. Training was conducted in air-to-air & air-to-surface gunnery; air-to-air training used a variety of aircraft, including AT-6 Texans , BT-13 Valiants , P-63 Kingcobras , B-17 Flying Fortresses , B-26 Marauder [ 5 ] and B-24 Liberators .
Jul. 24—HARLINGEN — Officials here are launching the biggest project in Harlingen's history, borrowing $10 million through a 30-year loan to help fund the first part of a $258 million ...
Harlingen Army Airfield, Harlingen, Texas AAF Gunnery School (Flexible) 93d Flexible Gunnery Training Group Opened: January 1942, closed: February 1946 (AT-6, AT-11, AT-18, B-24, RP-39Q) [3] Used modified AT-6s (later RP-39Qs) as air gunnery targets; closed February 1946; reopened as Harlingen Air Force Base, 1950; closed 1962