Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake ( MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake ) was a United States Marine Corps air station that was located northwest of Fort Worth , Texas during World War II . Commissioned on December 1 , 1942 the air station was originally supposed to be the home of the Marine Corps glider program . When the program was cancelled in 1943 the station became home to the newly created Marine Night Fighting Squadrons . After the war the air station went into caretaker status in December 1946 and became an Outlying Landing Field of Naval Air Station Dallas . After the war , it was used by various branches of the military before being sold to a private owner in the 1970s . Today , the airfield is a private airport run by the Kenneth Copeland Ministry as Kenneth Copeland Airport . History . World War II . In 1942 , of former ranch land were purchased on the eastern shore of Eagle Mountain Lake so the Marine Corps could set up glider operations . Construction of the base began on July 24 , 1942 . Marine Glider Group 71 ( MLG - 71 ) and Marine Glider Squadron 711 ( VML - 711 ) arrived at the base in November 1942 and the station was officially commissioned on December 1 , 1942 . In May 1943 , the Marine Corps cancelled its glider program and on June 30 , 1943 the base was redesignated a Naval Air Station . The Navy ' s Strategic Tasks Air Group 2 used the airfield to test newly developed remote control aircraft until 1944 when they were moved to Traverse City , Michigan . On April 1 , 1944 the air station reverted to Marine Corps control and on April 9 , Marine Aircraft Group 33 ( MAG - 33 ) arrived from Bogue Field , North Carolina . MAG - 33 stayed until August 17 , 1944 when they left for San Diego , California . In August , Marine Aircraft Group 93 ( MAG - 93 ) arrived from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and remained until November . In December the field became the home of Marine Aircraft Group 53 which was the Marine Corps ' first night fighter group . From then on the base was used primarily for night fighter training . Two common night fighters that operated from the field were the Grumman F6F Hellcat and F7F Tigercat . February 28 , 1945 saw the arrival of VMF ( N ) - 544 to MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake and it was also during this time that the air station reached its maximum utilization with a total of 121 aircraft on board . Post World War II use . After the war the air station went into caretaker status in December 1946 and became an Outlying Landing Field of Naval Air Station Dallas . By 1955 it was listed on maps as " Eagle Mountain Lake National Guard Base " . In 1959 , the severely deteriorated buildings were used in a science fiction film entitled " Beyond the Time Barrier " , in which the protagonist , an Air Force test pilot , travels into the future on a supersonic airplane and returns to find that the air base from which he took off is in ruins . By 1973 , maps depicted Eagle Mountain Lake as an abandoned airfield . In the early 1980s , the property was transferred to televangelist Kenneth Copeland , and a new hangar had been built on the site of the original World War II - era structure .