close to where DFW Ainport is now, only it was being used for military planes. Then in the 1950's, the city of Fort Worth changed the airport's name to Amon Carter Field, after Fort Worth's mayor at the time. This is the same Amon Carter after whom the art museum in Fort Worth is named. In the 1960's, Amon Canter Field changed its name to Greater Southwest International Airport, trying to attract passengers to their airport instead of Love Field in Dallas, Even so, both Dallas and Fort Worth knew eventually their airports would run out of room. Yet they still couldn't agree on where to build a new airport. All of this time, the answer was right before their eyes. In 197, Dallas and Fort Worth built a new airport just a little northeast of Greater Southwest Airport, and they called it DFW Regional Airport. Then in 1985, the new airport changed its name to DFW International Airport because planes were flying all over the world by then