Pyote Air Force Base
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Pyote Air Force Base was a World War II United States Army Air Forces training airbase. It was on 2,745 acres a mile from the town of Pyote, Texas, on U.S. Highway 80, 20 miles west of Monahans,` 230
Flightline of Pyote AAF about 1944/45. Notice the mix of B-17 and B-29 aircraft. The walls of the large hangar in the lower left of the photo are the only standing structure left at Pyote today.
Tribute to the first squadrons who trained at Rattlesnake Bomber Base
Texas Historical Marker
Personnel of the 351st Sub Depot in front of a B-29 at Pyote Army Air Field
Hangar 18 (film)
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Hangar 18 is a 1980 American science fiction action film directed by James L. Conway and written by Ken Pettus, from a story by Thomas C. Chapman and Conway. It stars Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Ga
Pyote Air Force Base
…the hangars were apparently removed or destroyed. At least one of them was evidently intentionally destroyed in 1979 in the course of filming the movie Hangar 18 (1980). By 1985, a single large hangar (the former 3d Echelon Maintenance Hangar) remained and slowly deteriorating runways and taxiways were all that…
Theatrical release poster