Schoen Field
Fort Benjamin Harrison

Named for Karl Schoen a WW I Flying Ace who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/schoen.html Killed in combat during the battles of the Meuse-Argonne, Schoen's SPAD XIII was shot down just minutes after he scored his last 2 victories. "For extraordinary heroism in action near Aincreville, France, 10 October 1918. While leading a patrol of three machines, Lt. Schoen sighted nine enemy planes (Fokker type) and immediately attacked them. Although greatly outnumbered he destroyed one of the planes and put the others to flight. He was killed in action 29 October 1918 and had been officially credited with destroying seven enemy aircraft." DSC citation

WW I Victory Credits web site where Schoen's victories are also listed.
 http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afhra/wwwroot/aerial_victory_credits/avc_wwi_s.html

Click on links below for more information on Schoen Field. There is not much available that we've found so far. However there is more than we have included here. We are still trying to get it posted here. So if you know of more sources, please let them know to contact us and we'll put that info here or link to it!  Thank you!

Click on the links below for information not on our web site:

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/IN/Airfields_IN_Indy_E.htm#schoen 

http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6721 Commander at Schoen Field , Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., in December 1925 and served in that capacity until July 1930.

The City's first airport was located in the infield of the Motor Speedway. In 1918 it was used mainly for the testing of Army planes and was home to the Army Air Service Aviation Repair Depot. In 1921, Schoen Field was opened at Fort Harrison. The first airport to service civilian passengers and mail was the Mars Hill Airport (now Stout Field). Several others quickly opened at this time - and just as quickly closed. The Hoosier Airport at Kessler Boulevard and U.S. 52, the Brightwood Airport at Massachusetts Avenue and Sherman, the Capitol Airport at 30th Street and the Penn Central Railroad in Speedway and the Irvington Airport at 7000 Brookville Road all enjoyed brief notoriety in the Twenties. Shank Airport at 38th and Moller Road survived until the 1970's-- a victim to the building boom in Pike Township. Only Sky Harbor, with a brief hiatus in the 1970's, has survived until present. The rest of this link is here:

 http://www6.indygov.org/dmdplan/documents/township_histories/wayne.html

Carl Schoen Geneaology Questions:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/schoen/messages/54.html

Accident Reports: Scroll down to see the few listed for Schoen Field:
http://www.accident-report.com/States/IN.html

 Here the 113th fighter squadron history tells of its temporary duty at Schoen Field. Flew mostly Curtis Jennies:
http://www.sharpshooter-maj.com/html/unit02_113fs.htm

 Another unit has its roots at Schoen Field:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/181fw.htm

Richard Stout died at Schoen Field:
 http://www.ai.org/dot/modetrans/airports/early.html