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Known as Blythe Field and Gary Field. Began training United States Army Air Corps flying cadets under contract to Morton Air Academy. Assigned to United States Army Air Forces West Coast Training Center (later Western Flying Training Command) as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield.
The Morton Air Academy was one of many in California that trained men to fly on a Ryan or Stearman aircraft. Morton was located at Blythe Municipal Airport. In addition to the Academy, an Army Air Base was established at the Airfield.
21 lug 2016 · We were looking for the Morton Air Academy, one of our checkpoints on the Rental Car Rally. We'd plugged all the addresses we could find into our GPS when we first departed LA close to midnight, but not everything was terribly accurate. Photo: Google Satellite View.
In addition to the Air Corps demands for civil flying schools to train military pilots, in late 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt accepted a proposal from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill that the United States train Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots at civilian flying schools.
5 nov 2015 · Gary Field was the site of the Morton Air Academy, which provided contract primary flight training to the Army Air Corps during WW2. The date of construction of Gary Field is unknown. However, a 1944 class book from the Morton Air Academy (courtesy of Bob Alvis)
15 dic 2018 · There was another airfield in Blythe, Gary Field, near the present-day golf course, which had a private pilot training school known as the Morton Air Academy. The school was contracted by the Army Air Corps early in the war to give primary training to Air Corps cadets.
Known as Blythe Field and Gary Field, it began training United States Army Air Forces flying cadets under contract to Morton Air Academy. It was assigned to United States Army Air Forces West Coast Training Center (later Western Flying Training Command) as a primary (level 1) pilot training airfield.
