Vance Air Force Base Drag Strip (Enid)
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- Raced
- 1968
- State
- Oklahoma
- What's left
- How much of the site survives hasn't been checked yet.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Runway at Vance Air Force Base
- Elevation
- 1,281 ft (390 m)
- Coordinates
- 36.34152, -97.91914
Drag races ran on a runway here in at least 1968, and the Swedish magazine Start & Strip listed it among 325 U.S. drag strips that year.
Background
Vance is an active Air Force base on the south side of Enid, named for Lt. Col. Leon Vance, a local World War II Medal of Honor recipient. The 71st Flying Training Wing hosts the base and reports to Air Education and Training Command.
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