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Betio Airfield, an airport appearing in the video game Call of Duty: World at War – Final Fronts; its name is written on the third campaign level Verdant Meadows Airfield , an airstrip based on Davis–Monthan Air Force Base and appearing in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
W. Waller-Franklin Auxiliary Field; War Eagle Field; Allen Field, California; Athlone Auxiliary Field; California World War II Army airfields; Campbell Auxiliary Field
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields is a website detailing information and first hand memories about airports in the United States which are no longer in operation, or are rarely used. The website was started by Paul Freeman in 1999 as he had developed an interest on the subject.
Rice Army Air Field (also known as Rice Air Base [1] or Rice AAF) is an abandoned World War II airfield in Rice Valley of the southern Mojave Desert, located 1-mile (1.6 km) east-southeast of the community of Rice. The airfield is located in Riverside County just south of the San Bernardino county line and State Route 62.
Grey Butte Auxiliary Airfield is located north of Piñon Hills, California, and southwest of El Mirage, California, and 25 miles east of Palmdale, California, at , at an elevation of 3,028 ft (923 m). The Grey Butte Auxiliary Airfield was built in 1941 in triangle shape with four 3,700 ft (1,100 m) paved runways and center runway of 3,164 ft ...
Amboy Airfield is an abandoned airport in the area of Amboy, California, which was used primarily during World War II. The exact date of the airport's opening is undetermined even though the earliest reference to the airfield was published on June 5, 1925, in the Oxnard Daily Courier. [1] Airplanes occasionally fly in. [2]
Fort Ord Army Airfield and Fritzsche AAF on a FAA map from 1963. Fort Ord Army Airfield, later renamed South Parade Ground Army Airfield is a former United States Army Air Force airfield built for World War II, located at Fort Ord. Fort Ord was an Army Base founded in 1917 on Monterey Bay of the Pacific Ocean coast in California.
On 25 September 1945, Major General Willis H. Hale, Fourth Air Force, notified Lemoore Army Air Field that it was temporarily inactivated. [2]The Lemoore AAF site was declared surplus by the War Assets Administration on 11 January 1946, and was evidently reused as a civilian airfield, as that is how it was depicted on the 1953 San Diego – San Francisco Flight Chart.