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El Reno Regional Airport is in Canadian County, Oklahoma, five miles southwest of El Reno, which owns it.〔 The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 categorized it as a ''general aviation'' facility.〔(National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems ) for 2009–2013: (Appendix A: Part 4 (PDF, 1.61 MB) ). Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.〕 Many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this facility is RQO to the FAA and has no IATA code. ==History== The airport opened in 1943 as a United States Army Air Forces World War II primary (stage 1) pilot training airfield by the Army Air Forces Training Command Gulf Coast Training Center (later Central Flying Training Command). It was known as El Reno Field or Mustang Field. It was operated by the 320th Flying Training detachment, with the Midwest Air School as a contract flying training provider. The Oklahoma Air College, Inc. also was a contractor to the USAAF at El Reno. Fairchild PT-19s were the primary trainer. Also had several PT-17 Stearmans and a few P-40 Warhawks assigned. During wartime, the airfield had three turf runways, their alignment now unknown. It had several (between 3 to 6) local auxiliary landing fields for emergency or overflow landings. Known auxiliaries were at Calumet and Union City with several others in the El Reno area. Pilot training at the airfield apparently ended during the summer of 1944, with the reduced demand for new pilots. The airfield was turned over to the local government at the end of the war. 〔Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.〕 TWISTEX storm chasers Tim Samaras, his son Paul and colleague Carl Young of South Lake Tahoe, California lost their lives in an EF3 multiple-vortex tornado near this area on May 31, 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「El Reno Regional Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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