Ah the remains of Fort Worth's attempt for an international airport...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=DFW&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=32.839284,-97.048266&spn=0.008131,0.021629&t=h&om=1
This is the last remains of the long demolished Great Southwestern International Airport that was built by Fort Worth to challenge the dominance of Dallas' Love Field. Of course if you happen to zone out you will notice that its rather close to its big cousin, DFW Airport. Amon Carter Blvd. is the former remains of the north south runway that was built for the airport. The last remaining sections are here. However if you zoom out and go south you can see the footprints of the old airport where the runways and taxiways were. The land is now vancant. The portion north of TX 183 is the former runway with an X marked to denote its a closed runway. Amon Carter was the name of the orginal airport, which when purchased by Fort Worth was a small general avaition airfield. Most the site is now either industrial park or corporate officies, with American owning a fairly large amout of the former airport, using it as its corporate headquarters complex.
The airport when was built by Fort Worth was barely within the city limits. And after DFW opened and Fort Worth closed Great Southwestern International Airport, Fort Worth was only able to annex a small portion of the DFW airport as the site selected was eventually swallowed up by closer cities. Today, only Fort Worth being half owner actually has a portion of the DFW airport within its limits, the rest of the surrounding cities have annexed the area in the 1970s and 1980s. Dallas being the remaining half owner of the airport has no portion of its city limits on the airport, totally blocked by Irving. Fort Worth only has the south highway entrance within its city limits and its way less than 1% of the total area of the airport.
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Airfields_TX_FtWorth_NE.htm
-- John O.
This is the last remains of the long demolished Great Southwestern International Airport that was built by Fort Worth to challenge the dominance of Dallas' Love Field. Of course if you happen to zone out you will notice that its rather close to its big cousin, DFW Airport. Amon Carter Blvd. is the former remains of the north south runway that was built for the airport. The last remaining sections are here. However if you zoom out and go south you can see the footprints of the old airport where the runways and taxiways were. The land is now vancant. The portion north of TX 183 is the former runway with an X marked to denote its a closed runway. Amon Carter was the name of the orginal airport, which when purchased by Fort Worth was a small general avaition airfield. Most the site is now either industrial park or corporate officies, with American owning a fairly large amout of the former airport, using it as its corporate headquarters complex.
The airport when was built by Fort Worth was barely within the city limits. And after DFW opened and Fort Worth closed Great Southwestern International Airport, Fort Worth was only able to annex a small portion of the DFW airport as the site selected was eventually swallowed up by closer cities. Today, only Fort Worth being half owner actually has a portion of the DFW airport within its limits, the rest of the surrounding cities have annexed the area in the 1970s and 1980s. Dallas being the remaining half owner of the airport has no portion of its city limits on the airport, totally blocked by Irving. Fort Worth only has the south highway entrance within its city limits and its way less than 1% of the total area of the airport.
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Airfields_TX_FtWorth_NE.htm
-- John O.