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across the nation, but primarily from Texas, Oklahoma, and eastern New Mexico continued to train at NAS Dallas. Hensley Field passed from the command of the U.S. Air Force to that of the U.S. Navy on 30 September 1949, but the field continued to serve as an Air Force
Reserve training center. The Air Force conducted air operations for the
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Soon after the BRAC closure, ownership of 738 acres (299 ha) of the former base was transferred from the U.S. government to the city of Dallas, but plans to redevelop the land for other uses have been stalled since 2001 due to the U.S. Navy's failure to clean up environmental contamination that
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regional liaison office. In 1950, one of the Naval Air
Reserve squadrons stationed at NAS Dallas was the first Naval Air Reserve squadron to be called to active service in the Korean War. The station continued to grow with the construction of newer, longer runways and jet aircraft were assigned to
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In early 1946, Congress appropriated funds to establish a Naval
Reserve training program at NAS Dallas and by March of that year the Naval Reserve had taken over the field. The Marine Air Reserve Training Command also established itself there at that time. Naval and Marine Corps Reservists from
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announced the signing of a $ 2 million contract for a new master plan to redevelop 738 acres (299 ha) of the site, although city officials said that efforts to clean up the contamination remained stalled, and council member
Tennell Atkins conceded that the master plan may take decades to
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December 1941, Hensley Field became headquarters of the Midwest Area of the Air Corps Ferrying Command, after Major Thomas D. Ferguson, commander of the field, was made control officer for the Middle West Area of the United States. Hensley Field was the first base of operations for the
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During World War II, the base also served as a radial engine repair station, with thousands of engines overhauled. NAS Dallas also handled all air traffic for the adjacent North
American Aircraft Company plant and was the flight test facility and the receiving station for 4,400
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The wing's first commander, Col. Kenneth Cool, trained at
Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Hensley Field, Texas was the first Air Force home station for the 455th Bombardment Group Very Heavy and where the North American AT-6 Texan was built and underwent
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Council member
Tennell Atkins said Hensley Field's redevelopment will increase property values, tax revenue and jobs in the region. "It's almost another downtown Dallas," he said. But Atkins added that the project is "going to take decades to get
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near downtown Dallas in response to persistent complaints from Cedars residents about an over-concentration of homeless in the neighborhood. The proposed encampment—to be called Camp
Dignity—would include an open-air tent camping area,
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in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Enlisted personnel destined for aviation duty with the Fleet were also trained at NAS Dallas, and at one time a number of Free French aviators received flight training at the installation.
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in both of its two Naval Reserve fighter squadrons and its single Marine Reserve fighter/attack squadron in the 1970s. The mid-1980s brought to the installation some of the Navy's most sophisticated aircraft, including the
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could take another 15 years and cost an additional $ 27 million. At that time—unable to redevelop the site for other uses—the city had leased various areas for industrial uses such as storage of surplus road vehicles.
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18.55 million for having violated various environmental regulations and rendered redevelopment infeasible, and agreeing to spend another $ 34.65 million over the ensuing 15 years to clean up the complex.
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began maintaining operations at the base and shortly afterward established a Naval Air Reserve Base on 160 acres (0.7 km) adjacent to Hensley Field.
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196:Parked cars on the taxiways after closure
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567:12th Battalion Army Reserve Career Group
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876:"TSHA | Naval Air Station, Dallas"
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686:Sakelaris, Michael (9 December 2013).
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1318:Arlington Independent School District
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762:Wilonsky, Robert (14 February 2017).
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1306:South Grand Prairie High School
889:Tsiaperas, Tasha (2 May 2016).
591:206th Public Affairs Detachment
558:607th Military Police Battalion
52:NAS Dallas – 2006 USGS Airphoto
676:. Retrieved 17 November 2006.
619:Human Resource Services Center
182:Location of Grand Prairie AFRC
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600:2nd Battalion, 354th Regiment
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576:490th Civil Affairs Battalion
552:350th Human Resources Company
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594:7th Battalion, 95th Regiment
236:Base Realignment and Closure
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365:Texas Air National Guard
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210:Naval Air Station Dallas
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800:The Dallas Morning News
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506:, Troop C, 1st Squadron
467:On 26 August 2020, the
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564:721st Engineer Company
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1192:Defunct and historic
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372:NAS Dallas in 1952.
1431:Geography of Dallas
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1101:Mineral Wells (MWL)
1071:Grand Prairie (GPM)
469:Dallas City Council
367:, and for the USAF
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1132:Grand Prairie AFRC
670:GlobalSecurity.org
317:United States Army
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303:William N. Hensley
234:In December 1998,
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206:Grand Prairie AFRC
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828:Handbook of Texas
803:. Dallas, Texas.
774:. Dallas, Texas.
716:. 15 January 2019
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