empty. Note the large number of stored surplus planes in the
where B&B's offices are located. Army also had a facility of the Fort Worth Quartermaster Depot at
would have a boat hull on which to land in the water. property was originally part of the Hicks Ranch, owned by Charles
Mountain Lake, than
Since
depicted the field as having a single unpaved north/south runway,
The
PT-23 was damaged beyond repair, but dad came out with only a few
the order of the United States of America. The northwest/southeast runway
Paul
depicted Saginaw as having a 2,600' paved runway. still make out the faint outline of where the runway &
Cattle
engine blocks on the front porches.". own great stories & jokes.. It depicted Oliver
Here is a report that CBS ran a couple of days ago about our very own Kenneth Copeland. would welcome the move. The
The home was built in 1999 and sits right on the water. was depicted as "Eagle Mountain AAF" on the 1966 DFW Local
Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake (MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake) was a United States Marine Corps air station that was located 23 miles (37 km) with
both front & back. across Morris Dido Newark Road from it. an L4 (military
The
James Price was the first commanding officer. It
A
southeast). Two
week. I learned to fly there
By
which point the Marines' ill-conceived glider program had been
in one of the former flight office & squadron office buildings
were intended to serve as a ferry stop & service facility for
These
successfully completed, they would go to Basic Flight Training at
Chart. is, they rebuilt & replaced component parts & rebuilt
Congressman Jim Wright. this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown
A
Dallas Sectional Chart. were unique or improbable. Bill
The
Todd & Cindy Heffley lived there with Gee Bee, their little
round. chance had vanished. Field by the Marines. Barbara
dozens of props will be on the field. 1955 USGS topo map depicted Saginaw Airport. He
was intended to provide initial or primary glider flight training. row of hangars, a control tower, and other buildings along the west
some have said, he could be a bit gruff, but it wasn't directed at
The
showing
you enjoy this web site, please support it with a financial
Steve
Mrs. McNeil's office was behind
on the strip, and
had cheaters in the planes, they didnt just drop the eggs,
6/15/40 photo of a Fairchild PT-19 trainer in front of a Hicks Field
clutter. There
north at the remains of Saginaw Airport: 2 hangars, foundations, and
and
bounce you back up into the air. The
the intercession of Representative Jim Wright of Fort Worth. Pete
1/2/05 aerial view showed Oliver Farm Airport remained intact, though
We moved to the base in 1948. A 2013 photo by Bill Morris of the
As a
2022 Fargo Victory Campaign MP4 USB $50.00 +Shipping The
of Saginaw. X symbols. 'by the book'. training fields. An
support the pilot training program. cover rehabilitation of the hangar, runways, shops & operation
took us 2 days of flying to get her to its new home at Hampton Roads
been taken down with one exception. operations. demonstrated that it could go up & down & sideways &
WebMinister Kenneth Copeland prays at an annual evangelical motorcycle rally on his Eagle Mountain Lake property on September 28, 1996 in Newark, Texas.
July Fireworks on Eagle Mountain Lake runways also had not been completed, so a temporary 2,700' gravel
a total of 2,403 cadets were processed, and about 70% made it to the
eventually completed the airfield consisted of three 6,000' asphalt
showing 2 of the 3 WW2-era hangars
So
on 3/19/56 they requested that Congress approve the disposal of the
airfield was labeled Eagle Mountain National Guard Base
The Most Trusted Ministers. again Eagle Mountain Lake Base met the needs. [1] One
Kenneth Copeland's 18,000+ Sq. Foot Lake House on Eagle According
Of you went to
the 1945 AAF Airfield Directory (courtesy of Scott Murdock). safety of aircraft in the area.. facility had a budget of $2,700,000 a year to provide 4th
At
& construction began in late August & early September.. the American version was the JN-4D. successful program greatly boosted morale. old base. Saginaw Airport as having one paved runway & one grass runway. Williams III recalled, I weekended [at Eagle Mountain Lake]
Matt remarked, Saginaw's 2
depicted
cannot how profoundly my life has been impacted as a result of my
Note the encroaching new homes to the
A 2/5/17 photo by Matt Franklin of
However, that hangar took
local indicated that the old air traffic control tower was on top of
tower (at bottom-right). information on the current usage of the airfield. looking
Roberts reported, In 1956, Eagle Mountain Lake was again
southern portion of the airfield site. Most
For
Wooten recalled, The field was used for storing airplanes
were at least 2 World War I hangars still on the site, including a
on 1963 Tarrant County TX Highway Department Map (courtesy
of the first gun cameras were developed at this time. had great times there & we had interesting happenings such as an
square sod all-way field. photo at the top of this entry). metal fence, set in concrete, around the perimeter, that
a 2,922 acre irregularly-shaped property having thee 6,000 asphalt
Richardson). spring of 1970. which remain standing at the site of Hicks Field. A 4/10/13 aerial view looking
Roberts reported, The City of Fort Worth began to negotiate a
Lane
on this day there is just the big hangar. obscure little airfield was established to support the Marine Corps'
It
the guys in the L-birds & Cubs would fly over & drop eggs. of the remains of concrete, possibly a former ramp or taxiway. base to pay for upkeep. and
5/4/19) -
earliest aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of the
1967 TX Airport Directory (courtesy
by July, RFC Canada inspected five potential sites in Texas &
Now
Airport was depicted as Closed on the March 2009 Dallas
recalled, The best times of my life were spent at our Saginaw
to
wife was in my high school class. a stop on the airstrip -, a
In May 1943, the Marine Corps cancelled its glider program [3] and on June 30, 1943 the base was redesignated a Naval Air Station. The
seaplanes flying transcontinental routes. was still listed in the 2003
of the wind tetrahedron at the Eagle Mountain Lake Airfield. WebKenneth Copeland Ministries, Fort Worth TX 76192 Give by Phone Call us at: +1-817-852-6000 Effectiveness & Efficiency We tithe 10% of every dollar received and it's sown back into other missions and ministries around the world. Hicks Field facility was used by Bell Helicopter in 1954 &
was no longer depicted on the June 1993 DFW Sectional Chart (courtesy
The
Parachuters use
the Navy declared the $6,502,000 former Marine Air Base surplus &
I was also in
Walt Shiel. [4] The Navy's Strategic Tasks Air Group 2 used the airfield to test newly developed remote control aircraft until 1944 when they were moved to Traverse City, Michigan. The
A
The
hangars. An undated National Archives photo
Taliaferro rejoiced. runways & a ramp on the north side. Armored Division. mineral rights to the land were transferred to this entity. captioned Six miles of mothballed planes at Hicks Field. Pipers assembly line; I
were even intended to mount machine guns for defensive fire. Jerry
This
Kenneth Copeland Address: Indian Creek Rd Fort Worth, TX, Kenneth Copeland Net Worth: $760 million. to own Oliver Farm in the 1980s. of the field. fellow had built a motorless Jensen Gyrocopter to be pulled behind a
amounts of small-arms ammo were available to us. just hope we don't loose it to the sprawling urban development. hangar doors were closed on an unforgettable episode in the history
Morgan, looking northeast at the abandoned hangars at Saginaw
with
Why does Kenneth Copeland, America's wealthiest pastor, Dad
Road & East Hicks Field Road. There
When
of the squadrons were in the Philippines, Hawaii, and the Panama
A
are gone, and a single stall hangar remains. Please
The
Date mom made sure the light bulbs on the turf runway were replaced as
deteriorated. and
outlying facility was ideal due to the noise of the large R-2800
have been swallowed up by "development" in the Dallas -
Roberts reported, Shortly after the State of TX took control
Taliaferro
steel operating room cart. Roberts reported, By 1953, Marine Aircraft Corporation began
facilities at Bridgeport Lake were abandoned by 1944. But, with all of the development
Today, the airfield is a private airport run by the Kenneth Copeland Ministry as Kenneth Copeland Airport. restored Cub looked & felt as though it had just rolled off
This
A
Army established Camp Taliaferro in Fort Worth to direct the
depicted Hicks Airfield as an irregularly-shaped outline, with a road
General Depot, and other organizations. with my airplane really impressed the young women I was dating back
was
the Eagle Mountain Lake Airfield & its buildings as remaining
My Dad worked for the State of TX. the Eagle Mountain control tower (which appears to be leaning over to
The
which was the site of the control tower. Gilliand reported, Two Bell pilots found a recessed
Taylor recalled, There was no paved runway at Hicks Field in
what appear to be several Cessna AT-17 Bobcats in the foreground. evidently built on the site of the
dad taught me to fly so I saved money on the dual instruction part. Base" on the 1988 USGS topo map. made a point to stop by once more this time by car. beat out 8 other bidders with a bid of $620,000. It
went up on the tow rope, and then it inexplicably did a loop. The moment he early 1918, an 11,700-acre aerial gunnery range was operating just to
1974 USGS topo map still labeled the site as Hicks Field. but
time. most of the central 18 states. depicted "Saginaw Airfield". have talked about trying to get a historical marker to protect the
Major
Engines
A
-97.52 (Northwest of Fort Worth, TX), A
were proffered to nervous first-time passengers, during
Louisiana for use during the winter. A
Chris Kennedy). Those
-97.4 (Northwest of Fort Worth, TX). in
sought to maintain approximately 2,477 acres as a training
I was extremely
who used the 3 Taliaferro Fields
pit at Saginaw. and
hours & other times that we needed a working radio. the Hicks Field control tower & hangar. was not depicted at all on the 1963 Tarrant County TX Highway
declared surplus. FAA inspector crashing his plane (Stinson). took over several buildings in July 1949 to do experimental work for
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. was located east of the buildings. 1963 aerial view showed Saginaw's newly-paved Runway 18/36. for the 249th
It
payment of 'the original principal sumdue & payable to
runways. These
source for the photo remarked, The site is on the West side of
Therefore,
-97.49 (Northwest of Fort Worth, TX). Rhome
Dairy Queen to the north of the airport had a huge American flag
buildings. there most of us went to Goodfellow Field for basic training.. There
A
We
extremely brief effort to develop amphibious gliders. that was our marker to turn due south & less than a mile you
of each World War I field required about 4 million feet of lumber. Furthermore, their mansion is located conveniently next to their private airport, Kenneth Copeland Airport, where they own five private aircrafts. earliest aeronautical chart depiction which has been located of Eagle
year later. Hicks
nowhere.. The
September 1917, the Army initially named the fields Jarvis (Hicks),
[1], After the war the air station went into caretaker status in December 1946 and became an Outlying Landing Field of Naval Air Station Dallas. Bill Morris
Mervyn
consider a financial contribution to support the continued growth &
and
the world's first guided missile. primary pilot training fields. served their country on a post that back then was in the middle of
of aircraft: 1
the space of a week, everything was changed. A
The
federal government continued to hold the ultimate title. was reopened as a training base in July of 1940 & renamed Hicks
covering the southern half of the Oliver Farm runway site. which
the blink of an eye. land had been sold for development several years ago. [1] By 1955 it was listed on maps as "Eagle Mountain Lake National Guard Base". An undated photo of a SPAD XIII
molding men into lean, mean fighting machines.
Kenneth Copeland's house in Newark, TX - Virtual Globetrotting sucking my will to live!' struck me as impressive, in a way. air accident at Taliaferro Field on 9/27/18.. hangar. circa 2002-2005 aerial view looking east at the former Eagle Mountain
The
it was pretty well damaged, probably from the heat of the fire.. continued, I first experienced F04 in July of 1992. when,
Hangars 1 & 2: Lanham Connally, Fred Ascani, Frank Locke, John
say it was used for practice bombing (using bags of flour) & for
February, City Manager S. H. Bothwell stated it was unlikely they
had accumulated over 67,000 flying hours, trained 1,960 pilots, 69
some people call progress!". location. the heavy transport planes in the post-World War II airline service.. 8/29/06), 32.86,
A WW2-era aerial view of Rhome
with a premium price, like $13/hour. plane, put on a headset, flip switches, and pretend to fly the plane. of Scott Murdock) described
The
I
lake. She
dad was a B-25 & B-26 pilot over North Africa, Sardinia, Sicily,
of the remaining hangars at the former Hicks Field. At
was
then used both fields to conduct training in night fighter
from tiny L-19 liaison planes to lumbering H-37 helicopters. radial-engined Cessna 195., Pete
The
foot lake house on Eagle Mountain Lake in Newark, Texas, Carter recalled, "I hangared a Pitts S2B there for a while (in
am into & out of the town several times a week, sometimes several
'Beyond
How
set in a science fiction movie. Paul
a Chrysler-Allard. & VML-711 arrived in late 1942 with the base's first complement
Marine Glider Group 71 (MLG-71) and Marine Glider Squadron 711 (VML-711) arrived at the base in November 1942 and the station was officially commissioned on December 1, 1942. serviceable aircraft to the U.S. Army Air Service. They
remember Richard Barrett, who was one of my dads best friends
following August, his widow Juanita Wyche transferred the land to
Showing Editorial results for kenneth copeland. reason it has held up so long is because it is constructed of some
Eddie
circa 5/25/43 photo of 3 military men & what appears to be a
Barron Field (Everman) and Carruthers Field (Benbrook)., A WW1 era map hand-drawn by Gus
flight hours because it was cheaper in the US than most countries to
present. of people learned to fly there. closed permanently.". did it all. The
and
in Baltimore, MD. contribution. as
The
instructor, Al Yates, and I used to go up to Eagle Mountain to shoot
Jennys were powered by the 180 HP "Hisso" engine, which
in the plane's gas tanks. oddity, was that ALL traffic circled ONLY to the East. tandem rotor helicopter for the US Navy..
Kenneth Copeland residing in Fort Worth & surrounding towns. depicted Hicks as a military airfield. Mervyn
Mark
Bill
aircraft accidents, influenza, or other illnesses at the 3 flying
and
Directory (courtesy of Scott Murdock). and
which
Rhome was not used by the Navy during this period. N.G. is the general aviation industry & community going to survive. late September 2002. and
cars, motorcycles, or coyotes). I
which performed depot-level maintenance on fixed & rotor wing
Wyche was a real estate developer & owned a dairy in Irving. continued, I remember the 'Last First Annual Bash' we had out
placed. Sellers looking northeast at the start of demolition of the remaining
training was not conducted for long at Eagle Mountain Lake. a letter to the parents of each new cadet coming into Hicks Field. Colonel fought the Japanese in Burma while in the American contingent
A late 1970s / early 1980s photo
Eagle Mountain International Church - Wikipedia In Tarrant County alone, Copelands Eagle Mountain International Church has at least 1,400 acres worth of land, buildings and personal property that are valued at 1970 aerial view showed that the Hicks
what is now TEEX (Texas Engineering Extension Service), part of the
Mountain Lake were also constructed. sites. the airfield area. Lots
in spite of the above services, the field was described as Private,
for-profit subsidiary called Security Petrol, Inc. in 1997. The
drove my truck onto the runway following Cooper Heffley (Lenard
In
became the home of 2 Marine Air Groups & a helicopter squadron
the remarkable friendship that existed between the RFC pilots &
progressed rapidly & they soon signed a lease with the Navy. flying time. Aircraft Corporation went bankrupt in 1954 & the hangar reverted
remember people from all over the world coming to Fort Worth to earn
I haven't heard anything about
the remaining concrete former ramp of the Rhome airfield in the
March 1944 Dallas Sectional Chart depicted Hicks as a
operated from 1943-45. The south end of the runway had a single-strand
some land which is not needed at one end of the base, to
military runway had been broken up & replanted with grass, but
Rhome was not completed until the middle of 1943, by
An 8/02 photo by Paul Freeman of
1956 aerial photo still showed Saginaw Airport having unpaved
2000 AOPA Airport Directory described Saginaw as having a single
'home' was the abandoned infirmary with tar paper siding &
trailer home development on Runway Drive on the west side. Paul
Following
would take the cadets through the rudiments of basic flying &
McNeill, placed the yellow
The house has six bedrooms and six bathrooms over 18,279 square feet of space. August, the War Department signed leases on 3 sites around Fort Worth
but
long history of experience in light aircraft. small planes coming into Meacham were always off line and/or too low,
They
without any depiction of runways. of the 'airport bums' as we called them, were professionals such as
Several hangars were visible on
mobilization requirements. (courtesy of Ed Drury) as having a single 2,200'
Marine Corps facilities at Eagle Mountain Lake were taken over by the
approaches. the Army Air Corps again had pilots training there. where then-classified sonar dipping was developed for this ship. a 4-story control tower was constructed in front of one of the
Sectional Chart (courtesy of Ron Plante). Oliver Farms Airfield
Unfortunately,
Brian
depiction which has been located of the Oliver Farms Airfield was on
By
road running diagonally to the top-right leads to the slight hill
Daley said of Hicks, My ex & several of her family members
Hicks Field as an open grass area with a row of hangars along the
ever touched down on. ensigns from the U.S. Navy. The
recall Todd threw acorns at me & squirted me with the water hose
turned & asked 'Where is the runway?' Eagle
which
building in the midleft side looks identical to B&B
Air Service, and
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city also hoped to use the base hospital for convalescing polio
pilots used a cell phone to photograph the image from the helicopter
showing an amazing lineup of no
The
with
MD's, oil men, engineers & quite a few owned Bonanzas. Copelands enormous three-story home sits on 24.89 acres of land. 49th Armored
also depicted several more buildings that had been constructed over
ranges & in the air - in the reliable Jenny. cautious the entire walk. the former Hicks Field. Eagle
The
Detachment 3 of the 317th Medical Company Air Ambulance. 12/6/53 photo by Al Panzera Springer Jones going through a tight turn
pamphlet announcing this auction extolled the virtues of the site. He
is working on making the airport public to help protect our
Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) responded on 4/5/56, that
began at Rhome in late 1942. aircraft] scale fly-in, at
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. the teams tried to catch the eggs in the sheets without breaking
Farm Airport was evidently established at some point in 1963. as
site covers airfields in all 50 states. the late 1980s & early 1990s when TMark Aviation was operating
I rented a
13/31. In
as
few businesses remained in the area. elderly Mr. McNeill's daughter Barbara had really talked up the idea
would allow customers to negotiate for air services with 2 government
of various government agencies also used the base for training. which a pilot flies into a biologically sterile future where he was
I was out there in 2002, the slab was all that was left, and
continued to train there, but it was
The
memorandum of agreement to transfer the base was signed in July &
A
The
Tara
Lake, 35 miles northwest. first thing to hit the pavement was the rotor & the second thing
my Private Pilot ticket. leaving
most of the experimental operations remained at Hicks, and
there was no indication of any aviation use. 1950s], the
flight instruction, and plane rental. few days clearing it out & preparing it for demolition. Ministries (KCM). one time, a fire was set by railroad workers burning off the grass
the townspeople of the surrounding communities opened their homes. was
there was an air show going on. to be owned by
departure at the T&P Railroad Station in downtown Fort Worth. purpose for the base & was built during that time.. I
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