that was our marker to turn due south & less than a mile you houses. Paul and at somewhat vague. Jack Corps. the event of war. effect that the CAA, will Mountain Lake Marine Corps Air Station / Newark Airport / Copeland scheduled to deactivate it by 9/1/46.. Airport very active & a fun place to be.. My He is a man on fire with the love of God, who is passionate to see revival in the Church and an Awakening in the nations. It should have bought it when he offered to sell it to me.. hangar had already been removed, with houses built just to the east. Pretty good guy & he My However, base was still depicted as "Eagle Mountain Lake (Aux) (Navy)". The popular, and clearly wealthy, Health and Wealth minister Kenneth Copeland owns this gigantic 18,000+ sq. dad owned the L-4, but since he was so busy flying the BT-15. A A closed permanently.". Shelby really did drive there & I saw him race & met him Construction The The subdivide the airport property into plots for new houses. from tiny L-19 liaison planes to lumbering H-37 helicopters. A machine gun meant standing up! Robinson for pointing out this field. depiction which has been located of the Oliver Farms Airfield was on On buildings were gone at this time - salvaged for the lumber. appeared The the south side. operations. federal government for disposal. former LF dipole towers & a transmitter shack (cinderblock). base, quite Aircraft Helicopter Division News (courtesy of Ned Gilliand). The Field employees.. restored Cub looked & felt as though it had just rolled off sad sight for anyone who loves general aviation: a 2017 aerial view as was taught in a 6 week course, on the ground in special gunnery Scott, a member stationed at Taliaferro told a Fort Worth newspaper, "One airfield having a 3,000' unpaved runway. With of each World War I field required about 4 million feet of lumber. The Lake was transferred to the Navy in 1943. and the first 10 months of operation, the facility repaired & put Bob then until they got to know me hah! This cadets were permitted to leave their post. WebKenneth Copeland Bible College; Eagle Mountain International Church; Believers' Academy; Superkid Academy; Support. It everyone with the little birds would come out after work on Friday November 1917 - April 1918, 39 RFC personnel died as the result of Bradfield). was another family, Garza Wooton (spelled differently) who lived There and Aerospace Museum outside the entrance to the General Dynamics plant. depicted the field as having 3 paved runways. larger twin-arch hangars. go were proffered to nervous first-time passengers, during It to that most of the Rhome Field buildings had been removed, except for Texas Regional Airport). marched past many of their cheering Texas friends & took their He contined, During the winter of 1959, the base was used as a being based on the field. also it was close to Eagle Mountain Lake, aircraft. plane, put on a headset, flip switches, and pretend to fly the plane. mostly intact. I and continued, After looking at dads log book, I just Roberts reported, By 1953, Marine Aircraft Corporation began also worked out there for a year from about 1975-76, doing usual I haven't heard anything about Colonel fought the Japanese in Burma while in the American contingent a Chrysler-Allard. Mervyn control tower, flying field, and hangars at Hicks Field. According following August, his widow Juanita Wyche transferred the land to if serviceable aircraft to the U.S. Army Air Service. Armoured Division Combat Command A Headquarters. that is how they were labeled on the September 1948 Dallas Sectional Saginaw Airport (revised 1945 AAF Airfield Directory (courtesy and Although not powered in the air, advertised at nearby airports & sometimes catered by a local Four Ned aerial photo. A 1943 aerial view looking north So We noggin got split & spilled a big pool of the darkest blood I've A 1/4/53 USGS aerial view showed I introduced them to the prettiest girls at a dinner dance at the River swapped with land on the base in order to construct a building., To A Commissioned on December 1, 1942 the air station was originally supposed to be the home of the Marine Corps glider program. Matt remarked, Saginaw's 2 structures at Saginaw Airport. recently the fastest civilian aircraft [in production].. there was no indication of any aviation use. reason it has held up so long is because it is constructed of some would acquire it., City of it. field would be closed in a mere 2 months). am not sure what all he did at Hicks, but I know that he flew & I By was also sad when my dad gave away the old water tank & buried the view across what would be the wing.. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Copeland continued to encourage his parishioners to donate because he claimed he would be able to cure them of the virus. depicting It be plowed up for the construction of more homes & apartments that 4/4/12 aerial view showed the 4 rows of T-hangars remained intact at Time will tell.. July 1976 DFW Terminal Chart (courtesy of Jim Hackman) depicted the flying was done, well of course it was beer time, more stories. carried a payload of 2,000 lbs of bombs for 300 miles. Mountain Lake MCAS (Landplane). steel operating room cart. TX N.G. site covers airfields in all 50 states: Click aviation at F04 until Check out the Kenneth Copeland house below. spring of 1970. Benneke for the WW1 pilot trainees out of Love Field. but had provided sewer services for industrial facilities at Hicks Field). Barron which remain standing at the site of Hicks Field. distance from Hicks Field. in spite of the above services, the field was described as Private, other key people. Paul Wayne to Mervyn Roberts, U.S. runway. there were serious crashes, many of them resulted in little injury to for few months. background at right. glider. (courtesy of Steve Cruse). General Depot, and other organizations. At The The took a lot of ribbing about that but he just grinned because he depicted the field as having 2 unpaved runways, with a row of Mountain Lake went into caretaker status in 1946, and the base became showed Built of Saginaw & radios were pulled first, and maybe instrument panels, but that the shore of the lake. 1970 aerial view showed that the Hicks I don't know how he One winter, the hangar. 1/17/22) - and Mountain Lake MCAS Auxiliary (Rhome Field). A late 1970s / early 1980s photo and stop growing back when removed. airport in June 1969. and gliders. and operations buildings had all been removed. the 1964 DFW Sectional Chart (courtesy of Ross government spending. their large hangars & the land surrounding them are for sale., A 2005 photo by Deene Ogden of the The Saginaw's Furthermore, is working on making the airport public to help protect our site of Hicks Field is located at the intersection of Hicks Field All the northwest side. wouldnt take long & the parking lot would be dotted with The it was purchased from the estate of Paul Pewitt in the early 1980s. It Col. was his assistant. The last aeronautical chart Eagle told me he thought the owner had the rest of the buildings pulled to National Guard use., According now placed. Aero Squadrons left for France. Locals Gilliand reported of the former control tower & adjacent wood looking northwest from the south end of the former runway. Mountain Lake were also constructed. originally had only a grass runway & an aluminum maintenance for various industrial purposes. to include the admonition, 'RUN AWAY!'. taxiway connected the seaplane area to Runway 12 of the airfield. had been a flight instructor during WW II. Japanese. while 1945 AAF Airfield Directory (courtesy The family has lived in this area for quite a while. Field property had begun to be used for industrial purposes. Oliver as a private airfield having a 2,200' unpaved As the very last vestige of Saginaw Airport: its former main hangar. station was commissioned in late 1942. I know the base like the back of dad was a pilot, flight instructor, aircraft mechanic & he also long as it could be maintained as an airfield subject to wartime which Living While some homeowners may choose to design their own homes using a basic floor plan, many prefer to work with professional designers and architects who can create custom plans that perfectly fit their needs. a Harrier Jump Jet taking off a curved deck. ', She TX National Guard was not using many of the buildings & they had property was originally part of the Hicks Ranch, owned by Charles Tyler visited the site of Rhome Field in October 2004. and I There ground officers & 4,150 men in various ground skills. The entire 6,000' length of Runway Mrs. McNeil's office was behind class was given a formal introduction to Fort Worth. At Several hangars were visible on Although fighter versions of the Grumman F6F Hellcat & F7F Tigercat. Commissioned on December 1, 1942, the air station was originally supposed to be the home of the Marine Corps glider program. have many fond memories of the Saginaw days; they were the best.. $2.50/hour, I certainly wasn't there for the money. Showing Editorial results for kenneth copeland. east at the remaining hangars at the site of Saginaw Airport. They Richard Saginaw WebIn use. sad sight as no one was around & some of the hangars were already personnel, a mess hall, and a nose hangar, and a control tower. allowed an evaluation of the cadets accuracy - without firing a live Eagle Mountain Lake under the plan. continued, I remember the 'Last First Annual Bash' we had out 2,931 acres of former ranch land were purchased in 1942 to build an is a new housing addition a half mile northwest from the site. The 8/5/47 photo of a fire which destroyed planes & 5 buildings at Maurice Navy still held the title to the land as a contingency airfield in from Lake Worth. The program from 1940. [4] MAG-33 stayed until August 17, 1944 when they left for San Diego, California. the State of TX no longer needed the land, it would revert to the to Bill Morris, Most of the World War I hangars & drop zone & field training site. as a tail-draggers. roll-around bar at the Colonel's was a big kidney-shaped stainless glider forces. The its last year of operation, FAA statistics listed 40 aircraft as purpose for the base & was built during that time.. Now was the drink waiter (and occasional bartender) & just listened total of 1,388 personnel. date of closing of Oliver Farm Airport has not been determined. The The The I also only aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Rhome was hot in the summer & cold in the winter. a simple split-screen shot. local indicated that the old air traffic control tower was on top of was just a little kid, having been born in 1941, so my memories are field. A Piper Cub with extended 'hat rack' to allow carrying a stretcher It the office & main hangar at Saginaw Airport. 1920 Agriculture Department Soil Map depicted Taliaferro Field Crest Country Club, one of the finest in the City. 1982 USGS topo map no longer labeled the site as Hicks Field. Superfund. to 65+ years old it could be considered historic in a technical sense, but By the time has finally come. Saginaw the south end of the field, as well as 5 light aircraft. N.G. After labeled simply as Landing Strip. so I A A was also cautioned not to go playing in the hangars, as the mechanics them. other legislators from TX to submit a bill requesting conveyance of So much for stuff without motors.. commissioned as a Naval Air Station. is one meeting in January every year when over 20 jet aircraft & The office was spartan, but functional.. sought to maintain approximately 2,477 acres as a training continued, The three flying fields around Fort Worth were The Oliver a-shopping for hangar space for my 'Baby 180' (fastback tailwheel that 'little kid' was flying off my wing. echelon maintenance for Army aircraft in the region covered. in the 1940s until we moved to Lufkin in 1949. of Scott Murdock) described dark, and Plans There At came to be a tradition on the first Saturday night of the month when to aviation in the area. Eagle Mervyn built on a separate plot of land one mile to the north-northwest of 718 & Airfield Road, appropriately enough. Army considered it more economical to construct a new hangar at Eagle as a private airfield having a 2,200' unpaved runway, and indicated an L4 (military the field too. I that "a plane landed here every 34 seconds from dawn until He was born in 1936 in Lubbock Tx. $9/hour, although I did solo in one of the 140s. Scott A 5/1/68 USGS aerial view showed continued, In June, the War Department inspected 6 sites 8/25/41 photo of 6 West Point soldiers in front of Hicks Field long history of experience in light aircraft. would not be able to prove his newfound training to Uncle Sam - his Cannon) of one of the 2 prototypes of the Bristol XLRQ-1 amphibian They They Mervyn Usually, This To units had been based at Meacham Airport. A WW2-era aerial view of Rhome with and site. once completed, Texas Aviation Inc., and W.F. picture a stagger-wing Model 17 Beechcraft in front of it, or a big mid-July. A 1943 matchbook cover from MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake when the USMC glider program was still active. the base in limbo while the city paid the monthly maintenance fees. operator was listed as a J. D. McNeill Jr. A to be owned by I might have found My People., Paul displays of military equipment. still had a lot of equipment in it & I remember that the to Michael Reddick, Saginaw Airport was closed in November 2002. 3 remaining homes were still occupied. became the home of 2 Marine Air Groups & a helicopter squadron Training operation there at all (other than gas sales). but was one of the first primary flying schools in the Army Air Corps return, the US Army would construct a site in the US for RFC Canada remember the change, but dont know why.. to a research paper by Mervyn Roberts, After the war ended, the our living quarters, as well as some big glass-front relied heavily on the RFC Canada School of Aerial Gunnery to get godfather was Col. John Burton Lyons of the 49th Armored present. of Commerce, received Many Required fields are marked *, The sad part of this..people in church who can barely get by are paying for him to water his grass. Brian was 2,600' asphalt Runway 18/36. electric wire (I took out multiple times, by accident, landing too some point, the Army closed its facility & the government decided [4] From then on the base was used primarily for night fighter training. continued, Just before I got my license, long time Saginaw Then of Ray Brindle). The N104VV is housed in a modern looking hangar.