Moore Air Base is an inactive United States Air Force facility located fourteen miles northwest of Mission, Texas. It was deactivated on 1 February 1961. The installation was sold to private concerns and partially transferred to the Department of Agriculture on 15 July 1963.
Moore Field was opened on 20 September 1941 as an Army Air Forces Training Command single-engine training school. It was named for 2d Lt. Frank Murchison Moore, on 22 November. Moore was a native of Houston, who was killed on 2 September 1918, during the Battle of Fismes and Fismette in World War I. The 1,087-acre airfield was the home of the 503d, 504th and 506th school squadrons, Army Air Forces Pilot School , the flying training units. The flying school was redesignated as the 2d Training Group in 1943.
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