The Runway at Sunset Field

ID: 5501 ~ Source: L87-1.21206A-41 The Eastern Washington State Historical Society Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture ~ Creator: Charles Libby ~ Date: 1941
This file appears in: The Evolution of Sunset Field

New bomber pilots trained to fly B-17 Flying Fortress bombers at Geiger Field during the second world war.

This file appears in: The Evolution of Sunset Field

By Dylan Steele
In 1938 a growing Spokane County decided to develop a local commercial airfield and acquired land on the West Plains where “Sunset Field” was born. Sunset Field ran commercially until 1941 when it was purchased by the War Department. By 1942 it…