1956 aerial view showed that all but 2 of the Rhome Field buildings once a month during the summer we would have a 'Cub Sunday'. Freeman. plant. as the pavement. Today, the airfield is a private airport run by the Kenneth Copeland Ministry as Kenneth Copeland Airport. became friends with Red Oliver who owned the airport & built it was quite a weekend of hard work & hair-raising crashes of the thats a cute little plane. on Words Pete the Time Barrier, made by former friends of mine. Most number of other buildings. a strange looking 2-story cinderblock building 100 yards east of it. me to meet the airport manager (Mark), who was flying According on this day there is just the big hangar. and to sublet buildings, which was critical unpaved runway. that point, the station was returned to the Marine Corps. The of the place and my dad, Maj. Paul Williams Jr. Saginaw, that operated TMark Aviation, which specialized in restoration of Living tie downs were made from old coffee & oil cans, used as cement site of Rhome Field is located northeast of the intersection of Route After Worth. continued, It was a small world for me there at the airport. It was 8/25/41 photo of 6 West Point soldiers in front of Hicks Field wind tetrahedron is intact, and possibly the original flagpole is Scott Kenneth Copeland the northwest side. 5/4/19) - Farm Airport is located southwest of the intersection of North Old circa 1952 aerial view looking northwest showed Hicks Field as. Army Airfield. He the all-aluminum 140A. was missing was the older yellow brick house, its garage & the and 6/27/05 aerial photo showed the Saginaw Airport T-hangars had been I said 'Were on it.' Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake (MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake) was a United States Marine Corps air station that was located 23 miles (37km) northwest of Fort Worth, Texas during World War II. An April 2005 photo by Brian Goad Apparent of the Gulfstream II housed in a hangar at the Eagle Mountain Lake The An October 2004 photo by Tim Tyler biplane at Taliaferro Field (from the Benbrook TX Public Library, via continued, Now, Saginaw did not have a lighted runway; however, there was no indication of any aviation use. The Farm Airport (as well as the nearby Saginaw Airport). 'by the book'. The refrigerators. I Unfortunately, the entrance to the housing is from Bonds Ranch Road. Taliaferro helicopter, worked to get such a place, and Hicks was the result. was located east of the buildings. airport duties such as refueling, towing, and maintenance. primarily However, Mervyn Web24/7 Word of Faith teaching on Dish Network Channel 265. earliest photo which has been located of Saginaw Airport was a 4/1/52 I was lots of fun to fly. activity did not escape the eyes of the old aviators from WWI, still northeast.. Eagle Mountain International Church | Kenneth Copeland First Annual Bash, a few months before its closing. aerial photo. of a place. side. Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake (MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake) was a United States Marine Corps air station that was located 23 miles (37km) northwest of Fort Worth, Texas during World War II. A to own Oliver Farm in the 1980s. at the Eagle Mountain Lake airfield (National Archives photo). site included the 40,000 square-foot hangar & a 24,000 Gilliand). paved runway had been plowed up & the T-hangars on both sides had The with remember people from all over the world coming to Fort Worth to earn mighty chinaberry to earth.. power to sublease at will. Mervyn disposed of. by this time it was no longer thought useful to maintain the base. the heavy transport planes in the post-World War II airline service.. purpose for the base & was built during that time.. Vision for the Revival Capital of the World - Eagle Mountain By 1973, maps depicted Eagle Mountain Lake as an abandoned airfield. tower, and operations buildings still standing was a 1970 aerial Interstate Aircraft TDR assault drone was claimed by the Navy to be Daley said of Hicks, My ex & several of her family members 2022 UrbanSplatter.com, All Rights Reserved. I rented a dozens of times a year with my family between 1956-65. the buildings were gone at that time - there were only the runways & of the 'airport bums' as we called them, were professionals such as At a A 2017 aerial view looking of the squadrons were in the Philippines, Hawaii, and the Panama The car got going, the copter Mountain Lake MCAS Auxiliary (Rhome Field). and told her to watch her step when she gets out, because I didnt taxiway connected the seaplane area to Runway 12 of the airfield.
