Hereford Army Airfield Hereford Army Airfield is an abandoned military airfield located about west - southwest of Hereford , Arizona . Military use . The airfield was acquired by the War Department in August 1942 for use as an auxiliary air field for Douglas Army Airfield , Arizona . A total of were acquired by the War Department . Improvements included three bituminous runways , three bituminous taxiways , a concrete parking apron , 38 buildings , and 18 miscellaneous structures . Four ordnance - related structures were also identified , as well as two ammunition storage facilities . The Hereford AAF had housing capacity for 598 troops . According to the 2011 Archive Research Site Summary , historic construction maps of the airfield depict a skeet range southeast of the runways . It is unknown , however , whether the skeet range depicted in the field progress report was ever constructed . Due to its mission of training bomber crews , the longest runway at Hereford was 9 , 200 ’ long , which was significantly larger than the typical runway of a World War II era training field . The airfield offered specialized night training in B - 25 Mitchell and B - 26 Marauder medium bombers . Historical documents also indicate that UC - 78 aircraft were also flown out of Hereford AAF . Civil use . Hereford AAF was declared surplus in 1945 , and custody was assumed by the War Assets Administration , which sold the property . It was apparently abandoned by 1949 . The War Assets Administration terminated the leases and sold the purchased property . The private owners apparently accepted ownership of some of the improvements in lieu of a restoration that might have been required . The Hereford airfield was apparently reused for some period of time as a civil airport , as the 1983 USGS topo map labeled the site as " Hereford Airport " , but only depicted the north / south runway . The other two runways were not depicted at all . However , this rejuvenation of the field was evidently short lived as Hereford was not listed in the 1987 Flight Guide . It appears that one of the runways at Hereford was used by small private aircraft until about 1990 , however as of the late 1990s , the entire Hereford site was privately owned . The site has been used for a ranching operation that included removal of almost all military structures & planting of grasses . The only evidence of the USAAF construction remaining was the deteriorating concrete parking apron , deteriorating bituminous runways & taxiway , and a pile of concrete tower bases . The north / south runway has been graded & reused as ' Airstrip Road ' , and one home uses the old 500 ’ x 500 ’ concrete apron as its driveway . It does not appear that the 1980s redevelopment ( as an airport ) resulted in any improvements to the site aside from a single prefab hangar & equipment shed which were erected on the apron . By 1998 , the Hereford field was apparently abandoned again , and the land has become part of the suburbs of fast - growing Sierra Vista . Plots have been subdivided , and several houses ranging from simple to elaborate have been built on the site . As of 2011 the area has been extensively developed into rural residential homes , with the zoning lot size at 4 acres . The main runway is barely discerned as Airstrip Road , with the occasional piece of asphalt still visible in the grass .