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New page: right|350px|1939 map '''City Field''', sometimes called '''Old Corry Field''', was an outlying landing field (OLF) used by the United States Navy for aviation tr...
[[Image:CityFieldMap.jpg|right|350px|1939 map]]
'''City Field''', sometimes called '''Old Corry Field''', was an outlying landing field (OLF) used by the United States Navy for aviation training purposes in connection with [[NAS Pensacola]]. The field was located north of [[downtown Pensacola]], near the present-day [[Woodland Heights]] neighborhood.
The field was granted to the Navy by the [[Escambia County Commission]] in [[1922]] under a no-cost, five-year lease. The Navy named the field in honour of Lieutenant Commander [[William M. Corry]]. In [[1927]], at the end of the lease period, the Navy determined the field to be too small, and acquired a new site from Escambia County, located about three miles north of [[NAS Pensacola]]. Thereafter the [[Corry Field]] name shifted to that facility, and the original field entered use as an outlying landing field under the name '''"City Field"'''. The Navy continued to use the field until the early 1940s, after which time residential and commercial development overtook it.
The field's approximate location has been overlaid on a present-day map below:
<googlemap lat="30.449784" lon="-87.218614" zoom="15" width="500" height="500" selector="yes">
#758BC5 (#C9D3FF)
30.449451, -87.225823
30.456332, -87.214794
30.448674, -87.212949
30.443235, -87.222562
30.449414, -87.225738
</googlemap>
==Other images==
<gallery widths="300" heights="320">
Image:CityField1940.jpg|Aerial view from [[December 2]], [[1940]]. The north-south road bisecting the field is present-day [[Davis Highway]].
Image:CityField1951.jpg|Aerial view from [[January 4]], [[1951]]. No longer in active use, development covers portions of the field.
</gallery>
'''City Field''', sometimes called '''Old Corry Field''', was an outlying landing field (OLF) used by the United States Navy for aviation training purposes in connection with [[NAS Pensacola]]. The field was located north of [[downtown Pensacola]], near the present-day [[Woodland Heights]] neighborhood.
The field was granted to the Navy by the [[Escambia County Commission]] in [[1922]] under a no-cost, five-year lease. The Navy named the field in honour of Lieutenant Commander [[William M. Corry]]. In [[1927]], at the end of the lease period, the Navy determined the field to be too small, and acquired a new site from Escambia County, located about three miles north of [[NAS Pensacola]]. Thereafter the [[Corry Field]] name shifted to that facility, and the original field entered use as an outlying landing field under the name '''"City Field"'''. The Navy continued to use the field until the early 1940s, after which time residential and commercial development overtook it.
The field's approximate location has been overlaid on a present-day map below:
<googlemap lat="30.449784" lon="-87.218614" zoom="15" width="500" height="500" selector="yes">
#758BC5 (#C9D3FF)
30.449451, -87.225823
30.456332, -87.214794
30.448674, -87.212949
30.443235, -87.222562
30.449414, -87.225738
</googlemap>
==Other images==
<gallery widths="300" heights="320">
Image:CityField1940.jpg|Aerial view from [[December 2]], [[1940]]. The north-south road bisecting the field is present-day [[Davis Highway]].
Image:CityField1951.jpg|Aerial view from [[January 4]], [[1951]]. No longer in active use, development covers portions of the field.
</gallery>
