and Fairchild PT-19 twin-seat, single engine trainers. However other aircraft were used at several schools. Those were:. Boeing-Stearman PT-13 Boeing-Stearman PT-18 Ryan PT-22 Boeing-Stearman PT-27 The PT-13, PT-18 and PT-27s were the basic Boeing-Stearman with different engines than the PT-17, with varying horsepower ratings. The PT-19 also could have the student pilot covered with a hood for "Blind" instrument flying training. Due to the proximity of Ryan Aircraft Company in San Diego, it's PT-22 trainer was also purchased and provided to several schools in California Assigned schools Falcon Field, Mesa, Arizona AAF Contract Pilot School (Primary) 15th Flying Training Detachment Opened: June 1941, Closed: May 1945 (PT-17) Operated by: undetermined contractor; provided RAF Training Gary Field, Riverside, California AAF Contract Pilot School (Primary) 10th Flying Training Detachment Opened: June 1942, Closed: August 1944 (PT-17, PT-19) Operated by: Morton Mfg. Company/Morton Air Academy, Blythe, California; had two auxiliary airfields Indian Springs Airport, Nevada AAF Flexible Gunnery School Opened 14 January 1942, Closed 1945. No Aircraft assigned Kingman Army Airfield, Arizona AAF Flexible Gunnery School Opened: January 1942, Closed: November 1945 (AT-6, AT-11, AT-18, P-39Q) Operated P-39Q Airacobras as air-to-air gunnery targets Las Vegas Army Airfield, Nevada AAF Flexible Gunnery School Opened: September 1941, Closed: December 1945 (AT-6, AT-11, B-10) Reactivated April 1950 as Nellis Air Force Base Lone Pine Airport, Lone Pine, California AAF Contract Pilot School (Primary) Opened: April 1942, Closed: June 1944 (PT-13, PT-27) Operated by: Lone Pine Academy Ontario Army Airfield, Ontario, California AAF Contract Pilot School (Primary) 7th Flying Training Detachment Opened: June 1940, Closed: November 1944 (PT-13, PT-18) Facility shared with Fourth Air Force; Operated by: undetermined contractor. Contract flying school closed November 1944. Was also used by the USAAF for basic flying training and for P-38 combat training. P-38 training was conducted by 443rd Air Base Unit. Oxnard Airfield, Oxnard, California AAF Contract Pilot School (Primary) 14th Flying Training Detachment Opened: September 1940, Closed: June 1944 (PT-17) Operated by: Mira Loma Flight Academy, Oxnard, California; also used by Fourth Air Force Twenty Nine Palms Army Airfield, Twenty-Nine Palms, California AAF Ground Training Detachment 17th Flying Training Detachment/6th Glider Training Detachment Opened: January 1942, Closed: April 1944 (PT-17, PT-27) Operated by: Twenty-Nine Palms Air Academy; transferred to United States Navy, June 1944 War Eagle Field, Lancaster, California AAF Contract Pilot School (Primary) 14th Flying Training Detachment Opened: July 1942, Closed: July 1945 (PT-13) Was USAAF Basic