Kerrville Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Louis Schreiner Airport
- First race drew 1,200 people
- Held a 1953 benefit for the Lion's Crippled Children's Home of Texas
- Raced
- 1953
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Kerrville Municipal Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- March 15, 1953
- Location
- Louis Schreiner Airport, five miles southeast of Kerrville
- People
- Drag-Uns Car Club, race operator (1953)
- Elevation
- 1,579 ft (481 m)
- Coordinates
- 29.97717, -99.08724
The Drag-Uns Car Club, a Kerrville hot rod club, ran drag races at Louis Schreiner Airport, now Kerrville Municipal Airport, five miles southeast of Kerrville. The first race, on March 15, 1953, drew 1,200 people. Spectators got in free, and racers paid a $1 entry fee. On July 26 the club held a benefit race and gave the profits after expenses to the Lion’s Crippled Children’s Home of Texas. The third race was on Sunday, August 23.
Background
Kerrville Municipal Airport, still known as Louis Schreiner Field, is a general aviation airport in Kerr County about six miles southeast of town.
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