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Curtiss JN-4 "Jennys" inside a hangar at Dorr Field, Florida, 1918. PT-17 Stearmans at Dorr Field, 1942. Dorr Field is a former military airfield, located 12 miles (19 km) east of Arcadia, Florida. The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I. [1]
Carlstrom Field is a former military airfield, located 6.4 miles (10.3 km) southeast of Arcadia, Florida. The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I. [1]
Avon Park Army Airfield, Avon Park, Florida; 61st Flying Training Detachment [7] Operated by: Lodwick Aviation Military Academy [8] Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida; 53d Flying Training Detachment [7] 2148th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Contract Pilot School, Primary), April 1944 Operated by: Embry-Riddle Company [8] Chester Field, McBride, Missouri
A fifth airfield remained as an active Strategic Air Command (SAC) bomber, tanker and reconnaissance base with a tenant Aerospace Defense Command (ADC) air command and control squadron. The base later incorporating a commercial jetport and became a joint civil-military airport in 1962 until the closure of the USAF installation in 1975 and its ...
The military use of Tallahassee Dale Mabry Field began in 1938 when the United States Army Air Corps established a contract flying school at the airport. In 1940 U.S. Senator Claude Pepper and Florida Governor Spessard Holland influenced the Army to make Dale Mabry Field a United States Army Air Force airfield as part of the buildup of the military prior to the United States entry into World ...
It was activated on 9 April 1942, being placed under the jurisdiction of Third Air Force, III Fighter Command, and was assigned to Sarasota Army Airfield as a sub-base. The first operational flying squadron assigned to Pinellas AAF was the 304th Fighter Squadron , arriving on 30 August 1942.
The airport opened in April 1940 as the Kissimmee Municipal Airport. By 1941, it was taken over by the United States Army Air Forces as part of the expansion of defense forces in the United States prior to World War II. Known as Kissimmee Army Airfield, it was a sub-base of the Orlando Army Air Base.
Boca Raton Army Air Field was a World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield, located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northwest of the 1940s borders of Boca Raton, Florida. During World War II , it operated the only training for the then new and secret technology of radar .