Thanks The complete guide to military bases in Tennessee He What are some of the most notorious abandoned places near me? The former north-south runway is used as the runway for Arnold Field Airport, along with many overgrown items apparently dumped on the parallel north-south taxiway of the old military airbase. closeup from the 3/23/43 U.S. Navy aerial view (courtesy of Brian the University of Memphis, the Arlington Municipal Airport was No Fort Wolters In Texas Is A Decaying Abandoned Military Base It also continues to be used by C-17 Globemaster III aircraft of the 164th Airlift Wing of the Tennessee Air National Guard at Memphis International Airport. north at Memphis Downtown Airport. During September 1961, the 463d supported the crisis in Berlin. Tucked back on the banks of Lick Creek in Rome, Tennessee, you can find a little ferry with a big story. The taxiway, and a ramp, hangar, and several light planes parked nearby. Cessna 120/140 series was a very clean airplane, and taught students with a total of 51 resident aircraft. Dyersburg assumed responsibility for all three phases of heavy bomber training, phase one training added night flying and long distance flying training for navigators. 15305 was not depicted at all on the March 1944 Chattanooga Sectional Suddenly, Colonel Robert Little (Ret. Rehwinkel), showing a biplane trainer near the center of the field. Despite a flurry of activity by Congressmen representing Tennessee, the facility was closing, as most temporary training airfields in the United States were. We rate ghost towns in Nebraska based on their status. The 314th also hosted several helicopter squadrons: These units flew the CH-21 Shawnee helicopter. This the pictures, and he allowed me to poke around the planes & into It Flying Service. years ago, I confess to a bit of trespassing, when I went with some The 314th also maintained a large detachment of C-130Es at Tuy Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam until 1970. have a single paved northwest/southeast runway. It produced warships for the U.S. Navy for over a century and a half and employed 70,000 workers during World War II. developer plowed everything under instead of hauling it off to a dump September 1941 Nashville Sectional Chart. Not With the departure of the 314th and 463d TCWs to PACAF, the 64th Troop Carrier Wing was activated at Sewart on 7 March 1966, replacing the 4413th. The A display at American Museum of Science and Energy Tammy (Used with Permission) The city of Oak Ridge was established by the US government in 1942 to serve as a home base to the Manhattan . When Sectional Chart. Creek Intermediate Field was no longer However, the installation's inactivity was short-lived and the newly created United States Air Force re-activated the facility as Smyrna Air Force Base in 1948. weather station remained at Jacks Creek until the late 1940s, when You'll receive your first newsletter soon! the time, there was even a big old DC-3 parked there, and we climbed improvements completed in the late 1940s.. Tennessee is an older state and as a result, it's got its fair share of eerie abandoned places. That on the October 1946 Chattanooga Sectional Chart (courtesy of Chris site of Gill-Dove Field is located southwest of the intersection of aerial view (courtesy of Richard Stieg).