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Rockwell Field is a former United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) military airfield, located 1.1 miles (2 kilometres) northwest of the city of Coronado, California, on the northern part of the Coronado Peninsula across the bay from San Diego, California.
On 29 December 11 of the survivors moved forward to Singosari Airfield near Malang, Java, to continue combat operations. [ 3 ] The group flew B-17s , B-24s , and LB-30s from Java against enemy airfields , shipping, and ground installations during the Japanese offensive against the Netherlands East Indies during early 1942, and was again ...
The Army resisted strongly, as Rockwell Field was a major training airfield for flight cadets, and had been using the field for flight training since 1912. A proposal surfaces for the Navy to trade NAS Moffett Field to the Army in exchange for Rockwell Field, California; Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.; and Ford Island, Hawaii.
Three months later, it was redesignated the 14th Aero Squadron, and in July 1918 as Squadron A, Rockwell Field. It operated as a flying training unit with Curtiss JN-4 , Curtiss JN-6, and Thomas-Morse S-4 aircraft until it was demobilized in November 1918 following the end of World War I .
The refueling planes were based at each end of a 110-mi-long racetrack oval flight path, one at Rockwell Field and the other at the Metropolitan Airport, now Van Nuys Airport. The flight would originate and terminate there for any endurance record to be officially recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. [8]
Anderson Field (Rockwell Field) was the first airport to serve Las Vegas, Nevada. [1] The north boundary of the airfield was the present day Sahara Avenue , [ 1 ] with the present day Paradise Road serving as the western boundary.
The Navy wanted the Army out of North Island as it needed to expand NAS San Diego as a training airfield for its growing number of aircraft carrier pilots. The Army resisted strongly, as Rockwell Field was a major training airfield for flight cadets, and had been using the field for flight training since 1912.
Most of the officers and men of the Squadron were transferred from the Aviation School at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, where, at the time, all Army aviators were trained. There, it replaced the 1st Aero Squadron, whose members were sent to Columbus Airfield, New Mexico as part of the Punitive expedition against Pancho Villa. There ...