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Aerial view of North Auxiliary Airfield during 2006. The land for North Army Airfield was bought between 1942 and 1945. The airfield was built by the United States Army Air Forces The original dirt runway was constructed in April 1943 and used by Hughes Aircraft Company for testing, as well as being a satellite airfield of Columbia Army Air Base, supporting B-25 Mitchell medium bomber training ...
Air Force Station (sometimes Air Station), Air Reserve Station or Air National Guard Station is used to name installations, typically but not exclusively without a flying mission, that are operated by a unit of at least squadron size, that does not otherwise meet the criteria of being a base. Air Force Auxiliary Airfield is used if the ...
A naval outlying landing field (NOLF) or naval auxiliary landing field (NALF) is an auxiliary airfield with no based units or aircraft, and minimal facilities. They are used as a low-traffic locations for flight training, without the risks and distractions of other traffic at naval air stations or other large airfields.
Blytheville Army Air Field: Arkansas: 1942-1946 [11] Arkansas International Airport: Bruning Army Air Field: Nebraska: 1942–1945: Mid-America Feed Yard Condron Army Airfield: White Sands Missile Range: New Mexico: 1945–2015: Drone operations [12] Courtland Army Airfield Alabama: 1942–1946: Courtland Airport: Dodd Army Airfield Texas: 1911 ...
Aiken Army Airfield, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north-northeast of Aiken; Sub-base of: Morris Army Airfield, North Carolina 359th Army Air Force Base Unit Later: Aiken Air Force Station (1955-1975) Now: Aiken Municipal Airport (IATA: AIK, ICAO: KAIK, FAA LID: AIK) Columbia Army Air Base, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) southwest of Columbia
1.1 Marine Corps Bases and Air Stations. ... North Carolina Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune ... Marine Corps Auxiliary Airfield Gillespie. 1946. Gillespie Field.
Naval Auxiliary Air Station Charlestown, Rhode Island; Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Clatsop County, Oregon; Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Corvallis, Oregon; Naval Auxiliary Air Station, North Bend, Oregon; Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Pungo, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Quillayute, Washington
It was established in World War II as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Harvey Point, an operating base for sea planes conducting anti-submarine surveillance off the Atlantic coast. A close by naval facility, Naval Air Station Weeksville , served as a blimp base from 1941 to 1957, while another former naval air facility remains active as Coast Guard ...