Max Westheimer
Field was established in 1941 as a US Navy flight training
field. Hundreds of Stearmans trained thousands of pilots to defeat
the Germans and the Japanese during World War Two. | Max Westheimer Field |
| Max Westheimer
Field was established in 1941 as a US Navy flight training
field. Hundreds of Stearmans trained thousands of pilots to defeat
the Germans and the Japanese during World War Two. |
| After the war ended, the Navy gave the
field to the University of Oklahoma. In 1948 Joe Coulter became the
first civilian airport manager at Max Westheimer, and established a flying school for the university. 1948 OU Yearbook The University operated Aeronca Champs from 1947 until 1965, when the conversion to Piper Cherokees was undertaken. |
| During World War Two, the naval base commander at Max Westheimer Field lived in these quarters on the southern border of the airfield. After the war, airport manager Joe Coulter and Instructor/ Pilot Jack Lauderdale took up residence in these quarters. In 1967, my family moved into the Coulter residence when they decided to move south of town.. My father had taken employment with the university as a flying instructor the previous year. |