Eberts Field

Eberts Field
Lonoke, Arkansas
Eberts Field Arkansas Station Area, c. 1918
Eberts Field is located in Arkansas
Eberts Field
Eberts Field
Coordinates34°47′43″N 091°55′09″W / 34.79528°N 91.91917°W / 34.79528; -91.91917 (Eberts Field)
TypeArmy Airfield
Site information
Controlled by  Air Service, United States Army
  United States Army Air Forces
ConditionAquaculture, rural housing, farming
Site history
Built1917
In use1917–1945
Battles/wars
World War I

World War II – American Campaign
Garrison information
GarrisonTraining Section, Air Service (World War I)
Army Air Force Training Command (World War I)
Gunnery training at Eberts Field, 1918
Refueling a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny", 1918

Eberts Field is a former military airfield, located 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northwest of Lonoke, Arkansas. The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I.[1]

It operated as a training field during World War I for the Air Service, United States Army between 1917 until 1919. The airfield was also used as a contract glider training airfield during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces, being closed in 1943.

Today the land is used in aquaculture.

  1. ^ William R. Evinger: Directory of Military Bases in the U.S., Oryx Press, Phoenix, Ariz., 1991, p. 147.