Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport is now known as Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport and the company run by his family is planning a plaza and bronze statue...
Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance takes its name from Ross Perot Sr., who donated land and helped fund construction of first industrial-only airport.
Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport is now known as Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport and the company run by late Texas businessman, real estate titan and independent presidential candidate Ross Perot Sr.'s family is planning a plaza and bronze statue to honor him at the campus entrance.Late Texas businessman, real estate titan and independent presidential candidate Ross Perot Sr. now has an airport named after him.
“My dad loved big ideas, he loved the projects, he loved visionary projects and he jumped right into it,” Perot’s son, Ross Perot Jr., said Thursday at a ceremony to mark the name change and open a new fixed operating base facility for private travelers. Perot donated the land and funded the development of Fort Worth Alliance Airport in the late 1980s, getting money from the city of Fort Worth and the Federal Aviation Administration to build the dual-runway facility that would soon become one of the region’s biggest industrial centers.
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