Historic California Posts, Camps,
Stations and Airfields
Needles Army Air
Field
(Needles Airport,
Needles Auxiliary Field)
Located 5.5 miles south
of Needles, this airport was used by the Army to support training
throughout the California-Arizona
Maneuver Area (CAMA).
This field also served as and auxiliary field for March Field.
Was returned back to civil operations by January 1945. Now Needles
Municipal Airport.
Department of Interior, Bureau of Land
Management History (2012)
The 800-acres site was located south of
the town of Needles, California and was surrounded by land associated
with the Needles Divisional Camp maneuver area. According to
information collected from interviews with the manager of the
Needles Municipal Airport and a local resident, the airport was
established in 1933 as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
Works Progress Administration (WPA) and owned by the United States
Government. The existing airport and land was acquired by the
War Department during World War II. Additional land was also
acquired for the purpose of extending the existing airport runways.
The Needles Municipal Airport was used as an auxiliary field
for March Field and primarily for the transport of United States
Army officers.
Extract, US Army Air Forces Directory
of Airfields (January 1945)
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