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The army rented Hensley Field from Dallas for a dollar a year. Improvements to the field as well as school construction in Grand Prairie took place under the Public Works Administration in the s. Mountain Creek Lake was completed just east of the city limits in After failing as a flight school operated by the Curtis Flying Service Corporation, it served as the Grand Prairie municipal airport from until , when it was purchased by the Lou Foote Flying School.

During World War II the field was used as a training school for the navy. Because it was too small for jets, it was bought by the city and turned into an industrial park.

The first wartime-era addition was the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, built in on thirty acres of Hensley Field to be used by the army and navy for flight training. The area just east of Grand Prairie was chosen as the site for a federally operated defense plant, North American Aviation, Incorporated.

By the plant had 5, employees. The city rushed to provide services and expanded utilities, built new schools, increased fire protection, and implemented city mail service. At its peak production the airplane plant employed 38, workers. Between and the end of the war the population of Grand Prairie grew from 1, to 18, On August 14, , there was a complete shutdown of the airplane plant, and the remaining 15, employees lost their jobs.

Grand Prairie feared a collapse of its economy, but it was able to recover by encouraging the development of such businesses as furniture, boat, and chemical manufacturing. At that time there were 2, dwellings and twenty-one businesses in Grand Prairie. The town had another setback in when the city of Dallas annexed the industrial area to the east of Grand Prairie, including the aircraft plants, Hensley Field, and Mountain Creek Lake.

In , however, Chance Vought then a subsidiary of United Aircraft Corporation moved to the site of the old aircraft plant with 1, employees. Many of them lived in Grand Prairie, and the town provided city services without receiving the industrial taxes. In Grand Prairie began annexing land around it in order to keep Dallas from taking it. To facilitate annexation Grand Prairie voted in a new home-rule city charter with a city manager.

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