Avenger Field

Avenger Field (former Avenger Army Airfield)
USGS 2006 orthophoto
IATA: SWW ICAO: KSWW FAA LID: SWW
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Sweetwater
Serves	Sweetwater, Texas
Elevation AMSL	2,380 ft / 725 m
Coordinates	32°28′02″N 100°27′59″W / 32.46722°N 100.46639°W / 32.46722; -100.46639Coordinates: 32°28′02″N 100°27′59″W / 32.46722°N 100.46639°W / 32.46722; -100.46639
Map
SWW Location in Texas
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 17/35 5,840 1,780 Asphalt 4/22 5,658 1,725 Asphalt 13/31 5,738 1,749 Grass
Statistics (2012)
Aircraft operations 4,500 Based aircraft 19
Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Aircraft operations	4,500
Based aircraft	19

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Avenger Field (IATA: SWW, ICAO: KSWW, FAA LID: SWW) is a Texas airport in Nolan County, three miles west of the City of Sweetwater, which owns it. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation facility.

Avenger Field covers 896 acres (363 ha) at an elevation of 2,380 feet (725 m). It has two asphalt runways: 17/35 is 5,840 by 100 feet (1,780 x 30 m) and 4/22 is 5,658 by 75 feet (1,725 x 23 m).

In the year ending February 6, 2012 the airport had 4,500 general aviation aircraft operations, average 12 per day. 19 aircraft were then based at the airport: 95% single-engine and 5% helicopter.

As a Texas World War II Army Airfield, "Avenger Field" opened in August 1941 as a United States Army Air Forces training base of the AAF Flying Training Command, Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center (later Central Flying Training Command).

Avenger Field was the largest all-female air base in American history. Its origins date to the 1920s as the Sweetwater Municipal Airport. At the airport, a small flight school operated with World War I surplus Curtiss JN-4s and Curtiss Robins.

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