Boardman Airport

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Boardman Airport (Template:Comma separated entries) is a public airport Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of the city of Boardman in Morrow County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.

History

The airport was built by the United States Army Air Forces about 1942, and was known as Boardman Flight Strip. It was an emergency landing airfield for military aircraft on training flights at the Boardman Bombing Range. It was closed after World War II, and was turned over for local government use by the War Assets Administration (WAA).

See also

Further reading

  • Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.

References

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External links

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