Fort Ord was an Army Base founded in 1917 on Monterey Bay of the Pacific Ocean coast in California.

In 1940 a 1,500-foot hard-surface runway was built at the Fort, just south of the main base.

In 1958 a new and larger Army airfield was built to support Fort Ord, the Fritzsche AAF.

Fritzsche AAF was located northeast of Fort Ord Army Airfield.

The motor pool/hangars were removed in 2006 and the site is now California State University, Monterey Bay softball field and parking lot.