Another three million vehicles pass through the area each year on Interstate 80. George as Utah’s second busiest commercial airport.
About 60,000 arrive on casino gaming flights each year, enough to compete with St. The number of visitors to Wendover is impressive. The group’s board of directors met a few weeks ago to kick around some ideas, share some interesting statistics and do a little dreaming about what could be done if money was not a problem. The problem is finding enough visitors and donors willing to help pay to preserve it. They have big dreams for what is the most intact World War II vintage Army Air Force base in the world. The 509th Composite Group came here to train to drop atomic bombs on Japan.Īirport director Jim Petersen and a volunteer board hope this won’t be a place where history is forgotten. This is the place where more than 20,000 members of the old Army Air Force gathered in the middle of World War II to train for a secret mission that would change the course of history. Save for the efforts of a few dedicated souls, it could easily become nothing more than, to quote a Kansas song, 'dust in the wind.' Wendover » The historic Wendover Airfield often stands silent in the harsh desert environment.
