Personnel pick-up tests at Wright Field | Combat Bulletins

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In 1917 Wilbur Wright Field was opened to train pilots and gunners during World War I, followed shortly by the creation of the adjacent Fairfield Air Depot, in what is today Fairborn, Ohio. In 1924, with the closing of the McCook Field test facility, the Dayton community purchased 4,500 acres (1,821 ha) including the leased area on which Wilbur Wright Field was located and named the combined facility for the Wright Brothers.
With the combining of nearby Patterson Field, the facility became known as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Aircraft operations ceased at the field in 1963, although it is temporarily opened on a case-by-case basis in order for the final flights/arrivals/landings of aircraft destined for the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
The triangular airfield is now the location of the National Museum of the United States Air Force and its adjoining installation remained known as Wright Field, and became the center of Air Corps, Army Air Forces and finally Air Force research and development and flight testing. In 1948, the two fields were merged under the name Wright-Patterson AFB. The former Wright Field became Area B of the combined installation, and the former Patterson Field became Area C.

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