Luke AFB Auxiliary Airfield 1 (Wittman Field) (Surprise, Arizona)
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military, training aids, United States Air Force
Satellite airport for Luke Air Force Base.
Currently used for practice approaches during training.
The runway is not suitable for landing because of the breakdown & foliage growth.
Although officially not an active military airfield, new navigational radio & radar equipment has been installed by the USAF at the Wittman airfield in recent years.
This is a fairly unusual case of an abandoned airfield being reused for practice approaches (which are not continued all the way toward a landing).
Ironically, there are plenty of active airfields which do not have any instrument approaches at all, while this abandoned airfield has an elaborate set of ground-based instrument approach aids.
This field was built during WW2 as one of a large number of satellite airfields for Luke AAF, which was the largest single-engine advanced training base in the world during WW2.
Served as the training site for P-40 operations when Luke Field became too congested with aircraft.
Wittman Field was activated on July 1, 1941.
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Currently used for practice approaches during training.
The runway is not suitable for landing because of the breakdown & foliage growth.
Although officially not an active military airfield, new navigational radio & radar equipment has been installed by the USAF at the Wittman airfield in recent years.
This is a fairly unusual case of an abandoned airfield being reused for practice approaches (which are not continued all the way toward a landing).
Ironically, there are plenty of active airfields which do not have any instrument approaches at all, while this abandoned airfield has an elaborate set of ground-based instrument approach aids.
This field was built during WW2 as one of a large number of satellite airfields for Luke AAF, which was the largest single-engine advanced training base in the world during WW2.
Served as the training site for P-40 operations when Luke Field became too congested with aircraft.
Wittman Field was activated on July 1, 1941.
members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/AZ/Airfields_AZ_Ph...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Air_Force_Base
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