Winkler County Airport is a general aviation airport located 3 miles NW of Wink, Texas

Wink, Texas

Wink is a city in Winkler County, Texas, United States. The population was 919 at the 2000 census. By 2009, the population had reportedly crept up to 926.Wink was the hometown of singer and songwriter Roy Orbison, although he was born in Vernon, Texas....

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It is owned and operated by Winkler County, Texas

Winkler County, Texas

Winkler County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 7,173. Its county seat is Kermit. The county is named for Clinton M. Winkler, a Colonel in the Confederate Army....

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History

The airport was opened in August 1941 as Wink Field and was used by the United States Army Air Forces

United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II, and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force....

 as a training base. It was an auxiliary airfield to Hobbs Army Airfield

Hobbs Army Airfield

Hobbs Army Air Field was an airfield used during World War II by the United States Army Air Force Air Training Command as part of the Western Flight Training Center.-History:On 18 December 1941, eleven days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Maj...

, New Mexico

New Mexico

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as part of the AAF Advanced Flying School (Twin-Engine) at Hobbs.

At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the military and turned over to the local government for civil use.