It was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917.

[1] After the United States' entry into World War I in April 1917, General John J. Pershing invited the British Royal Flying Corps to establish training fields in Texas for the training of American and Canadians volunteers because of its mild weather.

1 was used by the Royal Flying Corps from October 1917 to April 1918 as a training field for American and Canadian pilots.

(The helium plant was located in Fort Worth at what is now Meacham Blvd and Blue Mound Road.

[3] Taken over by United States Army Air Corps in 1940, Hicks Field was reopened and its facilities improved.

The field was inactivated 20 July 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program, declared surplus, and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers.

The original airfield was redeveloped into an industrial park by the early 1990s, although a few World War II-era hangars still stood.

[4] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency