Harrell Field
(Camden Regional Airport, or Camden Municipal Airport) is five miles northeast of
Camden
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, in
Ouachita County,
Arkansas, United States.
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categorizes it as a ''
general aviation'' facility.
History
The facility opened in August 1942 with a 4,800-foot turf runway. It began training United States Army Air Corps flying cadets under contract to Wiggings-Marden Aero Corp. It was assigned to United States Army Air Forces Gulf Coast Training Center (later
Central Flying Training Command
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) as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield. It had two local auxiliary airfields for emergency and overflow landings. Flying training was performed with
Fairchild PT-19
The Fairchild PT-19 (company designation Fairchild M62) is an American monoplane primary trainer aircraft that served with the United States Army Air Forces, RAF and RCAF during World War II. Designed by Fairchild Aircraft, it was a contempora ...
s and
Fairchild PT-23
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s as the primary trainers. It also had several
PT-17 Stearmans and a few
P-40 Warhawks assigned.
The field was inactivated on 15 April 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. It was declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on 30 September 1945. It was eventually discharged to the War Assets Administration (WAA) and became a civil airport. It appears to have closed after the war about 1951, and was later reopened.
[Manning, Thomas A. (2005), ''History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002''. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ]
Trans-Texas Airways Douglas DC-3
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s stopped at Camden, one of many stops on a route between Dallas and Memphis, from 1953 to 1962.
See also
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Arkansas World War II Army Airfields
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Most of the airfields were under the command of Third Air Force or the U.S. Army Air Forces T ...
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29th Flying Training Wing (World War II)
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References
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Camden Municipal Airport (KCDH)*
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Airports in Arkansas
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Arkansas
USAAF Contract Flying School Airfields
1942 establishments in Arkansas
Transportation in Ouachita County, Arkansas
Buildings and structures in Ouachita County, Arkansas