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Rentschler Field (IATA: EHT, FAA LID: CT88) was an airport in East Hartford, Connecticut in use from 1933 to 1999. Originally a military facility, later a private corporate airport, it was decommissioned in 1999, after which the football stadium of the same name was built on the site.
Rentschler Heliport (FAA LID: CT88) is a private heliport for the exclusive use of Raytheon Technologies, located 2 miles southeast of East Hartford, Connecticut.. From 1933 to about 1997, Rentschler Field was an airfield used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a fighter base.
Harvey Clayton Rentschler (22 September 1880 – 23 March 1949) [1] was an American physicist, inventor, and uranium metallurgist. Rentschler graduated in 1903 with a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and in 1908 with a Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University .
Sep. 19—EAST HARTFORD — Hundreds of truck horns could be heard blaring as a convoy of more than 500 trucks gathered at Rentschler Field this morning as part of a massive event to benefit Make ...
EAST HARTFORD — The first takeaway, being a local, from the U.S. Men’s National Team’s friendly match with Germany on Saturday was, “Gee, Rentschler Field looks a whole lot different when ...
The Hartford Colonials were a United Football League team that played their home games at Rentschler Field. During their (2010 UFL season), the Colonials played all four home games at Rentschler, after having played one there the previous season while they were known as the New York Sentinels. Attendance at Colonials games averaged a consistent ...
Nov. 10—Rentschler Field at Pratt and Whitney Stadium in East Hartford and Arute Field at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain will each host three state championship football ...
During World War II, Connecticut was a major United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) training center for pilots and aircrews.. The USAAF established Six major airfields under the command of First Air Force, headquartered at Mitchel Army Airfield, New York between 1943 and 1945.