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Joe,
I thought it may have been possibly at Memorial (Gila River airport) on the Gila Res or maybe Buckeye. I researched it and it was actually a small field southwest of Sky Harbor. It closed many years ago. That plane has been restored and is currently airworthy and in private hands.
Goodyear of course used to be Litchfield Naval Air Facility and was the storage area for all surplus Navy and Marine Corp aircraft (very much like Davis Monthan today) until it was closed and all remaining aircraft were scrapped or moved to DM. There's some cool old photos of Litchfield if you search Google.
Gila River airport was used as an outlying field for Luke Army Air Field and Williams Army Air Field during the war. In the early '90s I was flight instructing out of Chandler and our school had an agreement with the Gila tribe to use Memorial airport for flight training (mostly touch and goes). At that time the place was still full of DC-4s, DC-6s and some DC-7s along with a few other makes. It was occasionally active and every now and then a big Douglas would take off or land. I loved going there just for that. Now they're pretty much all gone and some of the field has been paved over. Sad...
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Kurt
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