[1] In the year ending March 20, 2024, the airport had 3,900 general aviation aircraft operations, averaging 75 per week.

Plosser-Prince was contracted by the Royal Canadian Air Force to train British and American volunteer pilots.

On 15 June 1942, about 100 male flight cadets began a course that included primary, basic and advanced training.

[3] Just before they arrived, the Sweetwater Airport was renamed "Avenger Field" in a contest won by Mrs. Grace Faver.

Avenger Field was to be turned over to the Air Transport Command as a transition school for experienced airline pilots in single-engine Vultee BT-13 Valiant basic trainers.

From Avenger Field, the graduates would be sent to twin-engine schools and subsequently for overseas duty as USAAF pilots.

[3] At this time, Jacqueline Cochran was making plans for a training program for women pilots to participate in the war effort.

Working with the Army Air Forces, she established a training facility at the Howard Hughes field in Houston, Texas, for Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs as it was known.

[citation needed] Avenger Field remained a WASP training base until being disbanded in December 1944.

The 683d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was assigned to Sweetwater AFS (M-89) on 1 March 1956, being established in new facilities built on the northwest part of the station.

As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes.

In addition to the main facility, Sweetwater operated several AN/FPS-14 Gap Filler sites: In 1967 the search radar was replaced by an AN/FPS-67B.