Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-09-20 | Page 8 | Scott Field, Far Inland, is New Army Air Capital

I Scott Field Far Inland i Is New dew Army Air Capital I BELLEVILLE Ill ll Sept 20 UP R RAs p pAs As As European war clouds fill t the e world toda today Uncle Sam is turning Scott Field his most interior air station into a new nerve center and brain factory a tory for a big part of ot his fighting forces in the air The new day dawned for r ScottField Scott Sott Field miles from the Atlantic ocean ocean last July when the war department announced it U was shifting its headquarters staff here from Langley Field Va Transformation of what was Va an flinty nest for blimps hUmp into the I head Ild ld station of the tho GHQ air force forre i is under way now There will not be many additional additional additional addi addi- planes at the field The big increase will be in officer population But the field is going going going go go- ing to be nearly remade The big helium plant and the 1250 dirigible hangar are going to the wreckers The mile mile- square mile quare field is being enlarged and cr crisscrossed crisscrossed criss criss- s- s crossed by eight concrete run run- ways New hangars for Airplanes are going up land and and a new bri brick k city for officers is being laid out The The cost to the WP A PW A and the war department is placed at around When will the army's new In Inland inland in- in inland land air capital be finished The best hest guess in army cir circles les is some sometime sometime sometime time next summer Scott Sott Field is located a few miles southeast of Belleville and 23 mile miles from metropolitan St St. Louis It was established in 1917 closed after the World war war and reopened in 1920 as a army base for than lighter craft Big dirigibles rarely tied up there however The last two dirigibles at the field were in May 1937 A few months later the army turned over to the navy its last blimps three from Scott Field