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The City of Dallas established Hensley Field in August 1929 as a training field for Reserve pilots of the then-U.S. Army Air Corps. The facility was named for Major William N. Hensley, a flying instructor located near Dallas in the 1920s and one of the few on board the first trans-Atlantic dirigible crossing in 1919. [7]
List of military installations in Texas Installation name Location Notes Kelly Field / Joint Base San Antonio San Antonio: formerly Kelly Air Force Base Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base: Houston: Lackland Air Force Base: San Antonio Randolph Air Force Base: San Antonio Fort Sam Houston: San Antonio Camp Bullis: San Antonio Martindale Army Air ...
Operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority, with very few military flights [2] Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport: Eglin Air Force Base: Valparaiso: Florida: VPS / KVPS / VPS: Civilian airport located on United States Air Force owned land Schenectady County Airport: Stratton Air National Guard Base: Schenectady: New York: SCH / KSCH / SCH ...
In September 2023, the Government Accountability Office released a report highlighting poor living conditions in government-owned barracks and in military housing owned and operated by private ...
Lawrenceville–Vincennes International Airport: Harris Neck Army Air Field Georgia: 1942–1944: Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge: Hobbs Army Airfield New Mexico: 1942–1948: Hobbs Industrial Airpark Lemoore Army Air Field California: 1942–1945: Farmland Lowry Army Airfield Colorado: Housing Marfa Army Airfield: Texas: Marfa Municipal ...
In May 1961, the then- Federal Aviation Administration head Najeeb Halaby told reporters that Dallas and Fort Worth needed to create a joint airport. British Airways and Air France Concorde jets ...
Dallas Love Field (IATA: DAL, ICAO: KDAL, FAA LID: DAL) is a city-owned public airport in the neighborhood of Love Field, 6 miles (9.7 km; 5.2 nmi) northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas. [2] It was Dallas' main airport until 1974 when Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) opened.
November 12, 2022: in the 2022 Dallas airshow mid-air collision, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided and crashed at approximately 1:20 pm local time at the Wings Over Dallas airshow at the airport. Six perished, five occupants on the B-17 and the pilot on the P-63.