McCook Field

McCook Field
Dayton, Ohio
Major Rudolph W. Schroeder(de) set a 30,900 foot two-man altitude record in a Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11 Biplane at McCook Field, 24 September 1919
McCook Field is located in Ohio
McCook Field
McCook Field
Coordinates39°46′33″N 84°11′27″W / 39.77583°N 84.19083°W / 39.77583; -84.19083 (McCook Field)
TypeAircraft Flight Testing
Site information
Controlled by  United States Army Air Service
Site history
Built1917
In use1917–1927
Battles/wars
World War I

McCook Field was an airfield and aviation experimentation station in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It was operated by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps and its successor the United States Army Air Service from 1917 to 1927. It was named for Alexander McDowell McCook, an American Civil War general and his brothers and cousins, who were collectively known as "The Fighting McCooks".