Terrell Municipal Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Terrell Municipal Airport
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IATA = TRL
ICAO = KTRL
type = City of Terrell, Texas
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operator = 474
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Terrell Municipal Airport Airport codes|TRL|KTRL is a public access airport located 1 mile SE of Terrell, Texas.

The airport has services for commercial and private aviation. Aircraft operations, including local general aviation, transient general aviation, and air taxi, average 70 per day. The Airport Industrial Park is adjacent to the field.

It is owned and operated by the city of Terrell, Texas.

History

The airport was opened in April 1941 as Terrell Field and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base. At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the military and turned over to the local government for civil use.

See also

* Texas World War II Army Airfields

References

* [http://www.airnav.com/airport/KTRL AirNav.Com - Terrell Municipal Airport (KTRL)]
* Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517

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