Constructed in
Santa Rosa County, the westernmost of Eglin's ten satellite fields, Auxiliary Field 10 was originally named Dillon Field for Captain Barclay H. Dillon, United States Army Air Forces, a test pilot of the Fighter Section of the 1st Proving Ground Group, Eglin Field, killed 2 October 1943 when his
P-38J-5-LO Lightning, AAF Ser. No.
42-67103, crashed 8 miles W of
Milton, Florida. Field 10 was later named Eglin Dillon Airdrome. The field was constructed in 1942 by the
U.S. Army Air Forces as part of the
Eglin Field military reservation. It initially consisted of three 4000' asphalt runways in an "A" type configuration. Runway 18/36 is now 8000' long with 1000' of overhang on each side and 150' wide. No ground station was constructed. It was transferred to the United States Navy in 1943 as NAF 05822 and was designated an Outlying Field for
Naval Air Station Whiting Field. Now principally used for U.S. Navy primary flight training, the Navy refers to it as Outlying Landing Field Choctaw (OLF), a satellite field for
Training Air Wing Six at
Naval Air Station Pensacola and
Training Air Wing Five at
Naval Air Station Whiting Field. It is also used for
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) training by the
U.S. Air Force. It is expected that Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps
F-35 Lightning IIs assigned to the
33d Fighter Wing at
Eglin Air Force Base will utilize OLF Choctaw for training. ==See also==