The Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex or Grand Prairie AFRC is a former United States Navy Naval Air Station located on Mountain Creek Lake in southwest Dallas. The installation was establish
Parked cars on the taxiways after closure
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth includes Carswell Field, a military airbase located 5 nautical miles west of the central business district of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas, Unit
Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex
…assets from all the military services. In December 1998, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action decommissioned the naval air station; transferred Carswell AFB to the U.S. Navy and renamed it Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth / Carswell Field; and sent Grand Prairie's Naval Air Reserve, Marine…
Aerial view of Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth
Oblique airphoto of Fort Worth Army Air Field in 1945, looking east to west. The airfield technical area is on the east side of the main north–south runway, with the Consolidated-Vultee aircraft manufacturing facilities (later Convair) on the west side.
B-50 Superfortress, Lucky Lady II, preparing to take off from Carswell AFB, Texas for the first nonstop circumnavigation of the world, 1949
Arrival of the first B-36A at Carswell AFB, "City of Fort Worth" (AF Serial No. 44-92015), in June 1948