Qualla: Rolle Airfield https://qualla.com/rolle-airfield en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/m/y/2/rolle-airfield-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rolle Airfield https://qualla.com/rolle-airfield Rolle Airfield: Introduction https://qualla.com/rolle-airfield/ Photo credit USAAF, Public domain. Rolle Airfield has an unusual résumé for a small desert strip: it trained bomber crews during World War II, spent three decades dusting crops, and now quietly serves general aviation just 3.5 miles north of the Mexican border. It lacks an ICAO code — the FAA assigned it only the identifier 44A — a small detail that signals just how far it sits outside the commercial aviation world.

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/m/y/2/rolle-airfield-wp/9my2-rolle-airfield-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rolle Airfield: Born in Wartime https://qualla.com/rolle-airfield/ Photo credit USAAF, Public domain. In 1942, the Army Air Forces needed training space, and the desert around Yuma offered it in abundance. Yuma Auxiliary Army Airfield No. 4 — later called Rolle Field — was one of seven satellite airfields serving the main Yuma Army Air Field, which is now Marine Corps Air Station...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/m/y/2/rolle-airfield-wp/9my2-rolle-airfield-born-in-wartime.mp3 0:06 2 full Rolle Airfield: Decades of Crop Dusting https://qualla.com/rolle-airfield/ Photo credit USAAF, Public domain. For the next three decades, Rolle Field found its purpose in the agricultural fields that cover this corner of Yuma County. The Imperial and Yuma Valleys are among the most intensively farmed landscapes in North America — lettuce, cotton, citrus, alfalfa — and all of it requires ...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/m/y/2/rolle-airfield-wp/9my2-rolle-airfield-decades-of-crop-dusting.mp3 0:06 3 full Rolle Airfield: A Twenty-First Century Renovation https://qualla.com/rolle-airfield/ Photo credit USAAF, Public domain. In 2011, after years of deferred investment, a comprehensive renovation transformed the airfield. Workers reconstructed the runway, built a new taxiway and aircraft parking apron, added runway end run-outs, and installed new infrastructure including a hangar, septic system, water...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/m/y/2/rolle-airfield-wp/9my2-rolle-airfield-a-twenty-first-century-renovation.mp3 0:06 4 full Rolle Airfield: Quiet but Open https://qualla.com/rolle-airfield/ Photo credit USAAF, Public domain. Today Rolle Airfield handles about 3,100 aircraft operations a year — roughly 8.5 per day, according to 2016 data — nearly all of them general aviation. The military accounts for only 3 percent of traffic. With no based aircraft at the time of that count, the field serves primari...

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