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Retaliation: Japanese Attacks and Allied Countermeasures on the Pacific Coast in World War II. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press. ISBN 0-87071-076-1. Aviation History article Archived 20 September 2005 at the Wayback Machine; Fort Stevens, The Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
Oregon World War II Army Airfields were the airfields built or repurposed during World War II for training pilots and aircrews of United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) fighters and bombers in Oregon. Most of these airfields were under the command of Second Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (predecessor of the current-day ...
In the year ending November 26, 2018, the airport had 52,300 aircraft operations, average 143 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% military, and 1% air taxi. 131 aircraft were then based at the airport: 113 single-engine, 8 multi-engine, 2 jet, 4 helicopter, 1 glider, and 3 ultra-light.
Six people on board the B-17 and Kingcobra were killed in the fiery crash, according to the Dallas County medical examiner. Two were former American Airlines employees from Tarrant County.
Camp Adair was a United States Army division training facility established north of Corvallis, Oregon, operating from 1942 to 1946.During its peak period of use, the camp was home to approximately 40,000 persons — enough to have constituted the second largest city in the state of Oregon.
Vultee XA-41 - Prototype ground attack aircraft; Culver PQ-8/A-8 - Radio-controlled target aircraft; Culver PQ-14 Cadet - Radio-controlled target aircraft; Curtiss A-12 Shrike - Attack bomber; Curtiss XA-14/Curtiss A-18 Shrike - Attack bomber; Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Jeep - Advanced twin-engine pilot trainer; Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando - Transport
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces established numerous airfields in Texas for training pilots and aircrews. The amount of available land and the temperate climate made Texas a prime location for year-round military training. By the end of the war, 65 Army airfields were built in the state. [1]
Pages in category "Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Oregon" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .