 Vance AFB student pilots and instructor pilots use the airfield to practice landings in T-6A Texan II aircraft, and refer to the field with the callsign "Dogface".The installation was first known as the Great Salt Plains Auxiliary Field, but was renamed Kegelman in 1949.It was named in honor of famed USAAF pilot Colonel Charles Clark "Sonny" Kegelman, a native of El Reno, Oklahoma and 1932 graduate of El Reno High School,, who led the first joint-Allied raid of the Eighth Air Force against Nazi targets in Europe in World War 2 on 4 July 1942.