Selman Field

The field was named for a Monroe aviator who died two decades before cadets arrived. Lt. Augustus J. Selman, a Navy pilot from the city, died on November 28, 1921, of injuries from an airplane crash at Norfolk, Virginia. The Army Air Forces' Flying Training Command began using the airfield as a cadet training center in August 1942. Beech AT-7 trainers were the main aircraft, with BT-13s for basic flying; TC-47s and TC-46s joined them in late 1944.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 0.7 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 1.3 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.
• Masur Museum of Art — 4.3 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 5.1 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.

More markers nearby

• Selman Field Navigator Memorial — steps away
• Claire Lee Chennault — 0.6 mi
• OH-6 Cayuse Helicopter — 0.6 mi
• Ivory Joe Hunter — 1.7 mi