Former Matagorda Peninsula Army Airfield / Matagorda Peninsula Airport / Matagorda Club Airfield / Pierce Field (closed)
USA /
Texas /
Palacios /
World
/ USA
/ Texas
/ Palacios
World / United States / Texas
military, abandoned / shut down, closed / former military, former air force base
Built during WW2 to support the Matagorda Bombing Range. The Matagorda Peninsula airfield was closed by the military at some point after between 1943-49, and reused as a private airfield. The property of this airfield was once used by Deke Slayton & other former astronauts in a private (commercial) space venture in the late 1960s/1970s. Several attempts to launch kerosene/liquid oxygen vehicles were made there, none of which succeeded. The site was also one of the early NASA considerations for a launch site before they settled on Cape Canaveral.
Former FAA LID: 72TA
www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Airfields_TX_Corpus_NE.htm...
Former FAA LID: 72TA
www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Airfields_TX_Corpus_NE.htm...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 28°27'15"N 96°18'3"W
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