History of Texas License Plates

Military Base Plates
Photo credits: All plate pics are from TXDOT, eBay, or the author.

Air Corps Advanced Flying School
Lubbock, TX

Operated from 1942-43.
Name changed to Lubbock Army Airfield in 1943 and later Reese Air Force Base.

Blackland Army Flying School
Waco, TX

Base operated 1942-1945. Became Waco Municipal Airport in 1950.

Brooks Field
San Antonio, TX

Operated 1917-1948, when it became Brooks AFB. Closed in 1995.

Camp Maxey

Paris, TX
1942-45

"A" : unknown date

1945 (restamp?) Enlisted man?

Eagle Mt. Lake Marine Corps Air Station
near Ft. Worth, TXunknown date

Operated from 1944-46

Ellington A.F.B.
Houston, TX
unknown date

Operated as Ellington Field from 1917-47 & Ellington AFB until 1976. Currently a public airport with military, NASA, and cargo flights.

Fort Bliss
El Paso, TX

1941

1942 type 1

1942 type 2

1943 windshield decal

???? plate attatchment

c1951 plate attatchment

Operated from 1854-present.

 

Fort Hood
Killeen, TX

"O" : unknown date

Operated 1942-present.

Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio, TX

"O" : unknown date

"C" : 1955

"E"=Enlisted man, unk. date

Operated 1890-present

Goodfellow Air Field
San Angelo

"S" : unknown date

Operated 1941-47. Now Goodfellow AFB.

Kelly AFB
San Antonio, TX

Kelley Field - unknown date

current US Gov't plate

Operated 1916-presnt. Named AFB in 1947.

Lubbock Army Air Field
Operated 1943--

Pampa Army Air Field

Operated 1942-45

Perrin Army Air Field
Grayson County, TX

Base operated 1941-1948, then becoming Perrin Air Force Base until closing in 1970.

Randolph Field
San Antonio, TX

1942 "S"

1942 "E"

Operated from 1930-48. Now Randolph AFB.

Red River Ordnance Depot
Texarkana, TX

1945/46

Operated from 1941-pres.?

San Marcos Army Air Field
San Marcos, TX

Operated from 1942-1947

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
FT. Worth District

U.S. Naval Station - Orange
Orange, TX

unknown date

Operated from 1940-59.

INDEX / Passenger / Antique / Dealer / Graphics / Special Pass. / Special Non-pass. / Military /
Truck
/ Sample / Cycle / College / Government / DPW / RRC / Obsolete / Misc.


 
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