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While most of the Boca Raton Army Air Field was deactivated in 1946, more than 800 acres (3.2 km 2) were retained as the Boca Raton Air Force Auxiliary Field. Another 85 acres (0.34 km 2 ) were used in the 1950s for a secret project to produce stem rust spores for possible use as a biological agent against wheat production in the Soviet Union .
Boca Raton Army Air Field was a World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield, located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northwest of the 1940s borders of Boca Raton, Florida. During World War II , it operated the only training for the then new and secret technology of radar .
Boca Raton Army Airfield, 2.1 miles (3.4 km) northeast of Boca Raton; 3501st Army Air Force Base Unit (Technical School, Radar) Airfield became: Boca Raton Airport (IATA: BCT, ICAO: KBCT, FAA LID: BCT) Station became: Florida Atlantic University
The Boca Raton Airport started off as a grass strip along the west side of what is now Florida Atlantic University. It turns 75 years old this month.
The Boca Raton Airport started off as a grass strip along what is now the west side of Florida Atlantic University’s campus. In December, it turned 75 years old. In 1942, as the United States ...
Boca Raton Airport. The Boca Raton Airport (BCT) is a general aviation airport immediately adjacent to Florida Atlantic University and Interstate 95. It has a control tower which is staffed from 0700 to 2300. The Boca Raton Airport is publicly owned and governed by a seven-member Authority appointed by the City of Boca Raton and the Palm Beach ...
English: FAA diagram of Boca Raton Airport (BCT), located in Boca Raton, Florida. Date: ... File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that ...
Boca Raton Army Air Field, located on the present-day site of the Boca Raton Airport and Florida Atlantic University (FAU), opened in October 1942. Compromising more than 800 buildings and 4 runways, the airfield at its peak accommodated more than 100,000 personnel trained there or flew to destinations in Europe or the Pacific Ocean, dwarfing ...