It is located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) northwest of the central business district of Blythe, California,[1] within the city limits.

Known sub-bases and auxiliaries assigned to the field were: It was inactivated on August 4, 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program, then declared surplus and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on September 30, 1945.

It was eventually discharged to the War Assets Administration (WAA), and the facilities of the former airport were reused by Palo Verde Community College.

In particular, the characteristic irregular arrangement of the barracks buildings which remains at the site make the location of Gary Field very much recognizable.

An interesting sidebar to history puts billionaire Kirk Kerkorian at Morton Air Academy as a flight instructor during the early World War II period flying throughout the California desert; he made a first career flying charters, and later building hotels like the MGM Grand years later.