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The airport was opened in September 1942 as Porterville Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourth Air Force as a training base during World War II. It was a sub-base to Lemoore AAF, being used as a pilot training facility. Improvements to the site included a fueling system utilizing nine underground storage tanks.
The airport covers 548 acres (222 ha) at an elevation of 501 feet (153 m).Its single runway, 13/31, is 6,500 by 100 feet (1,981 x 30 m) asphalt. [1]In the year ending November 3, 2023, the airport had 67,100 aircraft operations, average 184 per day: 100% general aviation and <1% military. 68 aircraft were then based at this airport: 52 single-engine, 10 multi-engine, 1 jet, 4 helicopter, and 1 ...
FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010; National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2017–2021), released September 2016; Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2016 (final), released July 2017; Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT): Aviation Division; Airport Directory
The casino opened on June 1, 1996 in the Tule River Reservation in California.. In October 2019, "the assistant secretary for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) signed a record of decision (ROD) and issued a secretarial determination giving the Tule Tribe its blessing to relocate Eagle Mt. Casino to a 40-acre site near the Porterville airport, 15 miles off reservation land," after determining ...
Robert Gray Army Airfield [1] (IATA: GRK, ICAO: KGRK, FAA LID: GRK) is a military joint-use airport that operates alongside Killeen Regional Airport. [2] The airport is based inside the south end of the Fort Hood Military Reservation (West Fort Hood), six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) southwest of the central business district of Killeen, Texas, [2] in unincorporated Bell County.
Majors Airport covers 1,525 acres (617 ha) at an elevation of 535 feet (163 m). Its one runway, 17/35, is 8,030 by 150 feet (2,448 x 46 m) asphalt. [1]In the year ending 23 June 2016, the airport had 19,135 aircraft operations, averaging 52 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. 42 aircraft were then based at the airport: 86% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 7% jets, and 2% helicopters.
The airport is used for general aviation and military training; it has scheduled flights to Dallas/Fort Worth on American Airlines/American Eagle. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 24,835 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [ 3 ] 24,944 in 2009 and 21,830 in 2010. [ 4 ]
The first airline flights were operated by Pioneer Air Lines with twin engine Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft in 1947. Pioneer was then acquired by and merged into Continental Airlines which in 1955 was operating daily DC-3 service with a multi-stop routing of Midland, TX/Odessa, TX – Big Spring, TX – Snyder, TX – Abilene, TX – Breckenridge, TX – Fort Worth – Dallas Love Field – Waco ...