| Naval Outlying Landing Field Choctaw Eglin Dillon Airdrome Eglin Air Force Auxiliary Field #10 | |||||||
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| Located near:Pensacola, Florida | |||||||
 2006 USGS airphoto | |||||||
| Site information | |||||||
| Type | Military airfield | ||||||
| Location | |||||||
  NOLF Choctaw | |||||||
| Coordinates | 30°30′33″N086°57′28″W / 30.50917°N 86.95778°W /30.50917; -86.95778 | ||||||
| Site history | |||||||
| Battles/wars | World War II | ||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||
| Identifiers | IATA: NFJ,ICAO: KNFJ,FAA LID: NFJ,WMO: 725540 | ||||||
| Elevation | 31 metres (102 ft)AMSL | ||||||
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Naval Outlying Landing Field Choctaw (IATA:NFJ,ICAO:KNFJ,FAALID:NFJ) is theUnited States Navy's designation for an auxiliary airfield that was originally constructed duringWorld War II asEglin Field (nowEglin Air Force Base) Auxiliary Field # 10. It is located 16.6 miles northeast ofPensacola, Florida.
Constructed inSanta Rosa County, the westernmost of Eglin's ten satellite fields, Auxiliary Field 10 was originally named Dillon Field for Captain Barclay H. Dillon, United States Army Air Forces, a test pilot of the Fighter Section of the 1st Proving Ground Group, Eglin Field, killed 2 October 1943 when hisP-38J-5-LO Lightning, AAF Ser. No.42-67103, crashed 8 miles W ofMilton, Florida.[1] Field 10 was later named Eglin Dillon Airdrome.[2]
The field was constructed in 1942 by theU.S. Army Air Forces as part of theEglin Field military reservation. It initially consisted of three 4000' asphalt runways in an "A" type configuration. Runway 18/36 is now 8000' long with 1000' of overhang on each side and 150' wide. No ground station was constructed. It was transferred to the United States Navy in 1943 as NAF 05822 and was designated an Outlying Field forNaval Air Station Whiting Field. Now principally used for U.S. Navy primary flight training, the Navy refers to it as Outlying Landing Field Choctaw (OLF), a satellite field forTraining Air Wing Six atNaval Air Station Pensacola andTraining Air Wing Five atNaval Air Station Whiting Field.[3]
It is also used forunmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) training by theU.S. Air Force.[4]
It is expected that Air Force, Navy and Marine CorpsF-35 Lightning IIs assigned to the33d Fighter Wing atEglin Air Force Base will utilize OLF Choctaw for training.[5]
This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
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