[5] In early 1942, the War Department leased the site and it was provided to the United States Army Air Forces for a training airfield.

The Army Air Force began to rush the project to completion and changed the civil building plans to that of a military airfield and ground station.

Barracks, mess halls, a hospital, church, theater, administrative buildings, aircraft hangars and a control tower were built.

The civilian workers were instructed in Army aviation procedures and to fill hundreds of jobs necessary to support the pilot training program.

The school used a number of two-engine trainers, including the Cessna AT-17 Bobcat, Curtiss-Wright AT-9, Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita, and TB-25 Mitchell.

[5] The school's mission was to train cadets to fly twin-engine transports and bombers in a nine-week course.

By 1950 the facility was disposed of by the War Assets Administration (WAA) and deeded to the local government, being operated as Waco Municipal Airport.