[1] It is located seven nautical miles (8 mi, 13 km) southwest of the central business district of Dos Palos,[1] a city in neighboring Merced County.

[2] It was first activated on June 24, 1943 as United States Army Air Forces primary (level 1) pilot training airfield known as Dos Palos Airport.

It was inactivated on December 28, 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program and was declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers.

After the war, the City of Dos Palos briefly operated a golf course on the site before the property reverted to the federal government.

Eagle Field was in a short scene of the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.