Greater Southwest International Airport
| Greater Southwest International Airport (Amon Carter Field) | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Fort Worth | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Allied Fueling Company / Allied Service Company | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Fort Worth, Texas | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | April 25, 1953 | ||||||||||||||
| Closed | January 13, 1974 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 568 ft / 173 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°49′53″N 097°02′57″W / 32.83139°N 97.04917°W | ||||||||||||||
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Greater Southwest International Airport (IATA: GSW, ICAO: KGSW), originally Amon Carter Field, is a now closed commercial airport serving Fort Worth, Texas, from 1953 until 1974. Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) opened in 1974 a few miles north of the airport as the planned replacement for both Greater Southwest and Dallas Love Field (DAL) as the single main airport for all scheduled airline flights for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, although Love Field survives with Southwest Airlines being the major carrier there. The area is now a commercial/light-industrial park serving DFW International, centered along Amon Carter Boulevard, which was originally constructed from the old airport's north-south runway.
Starting in the 1920s, the city of Fort Worth planned to create a regional airport on the eastern end of Tarrant County, equidistant from the centers of Dallas and Fort Worth, to serve the entire metropolitan area. The city of Dallas initially had no interest in the plan, but began to consider it during the Great Depression as a means of easing the financial burden on the city government. Work on the site began in the mid-1930s. Dallas and Fort Worth planned to obtain Works Progress Administration funding for the terminal construction, until Dallas abruptly withdrew from the project when it was found that the terminal would be located one mile closer to Fort Worth. The unfinished airport appeared as an auxiliary airfield on 1940s sectional charts, under the names Arlington Airport and Midway Field.
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