Marine Corps Air Facility Walnut Ridge, Military training facility in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.
Marine Corps Air Facility Walnut Ridge is a former military airfield in Walnut Ridge, in northeast Arkansas, now operating as a regional airport. The site retains three runways, several hangars, and a number of original support buildings from its wartime years.
The site opened in 1942 as a basic flight training school for the Army Air Forces and prepared thousands of pilots during the war. After 1945, it served as a processing center for surplus military aircraft before being converted into a civilian airport.
The Wings of Honor Museum on the grounds displays wartime photographs, uniforms, and documents that show what daily life looked like for pilots and ground crews stationed here. The collection gives a direct sense of how the base functioned during active service.
The site is open to the public as a working airport, and the on-site museum welcomes visitors. It is worth checking the museum's opening hours in advance, as they can change depending on the time of year.
Five smaller satellite airfields once surrounded the main complex to support training flights, but none of them survive today. Wartime aerial photographs show how far the network of fields spread across the surrounding landscape.
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