THE PLT OF AN EXPERIMENTAL ACFT ENTERED CLASS D AIRSPACE WITHOUT A CLRNC THEN LWOC.

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THE PROB AROSE DURING THE APCH AND LNDG PHASE OF MY FLT FROM AERO COUNTY ARPT; MCKINNEY; TX; TO SHREVEPORT DOWNTOWN ARPT; SHREVEPORT; LA. I WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE AT BARKSDALE AFB; LA; AT XC00 ON APR/FRI/01. THE WX AT MY POINT OF DEP AND ALONG PART OF MY RTE OF FLT DELAYED MY DEP FROM AERO COUNTY ARPT. AT XA30 ON APR/FRI/01; I CALLED 1-800-WX-BRIEF AND RECEIVED A BRIEFING INDICATING IMPROVED WX CONDITIONS BY XC00. THE BRIEFER INDICATED THAT THERE WERE NO NOTAMS IN EFFECT DURING MY PLANNED FLT TIME OF XC00 TO XE00. I TELEPHONED AHEAD THAT MY ARR AT BARKSDALE AFB WOULD BE DELAYED FROM XC00 UNTIL APPROX XD30-XE00. I WAS TOLD TO LAND AT SHREVEPORT DOWNTOWN ARPT IF I ARRIVED DURING THAT TIME PERIOD AND TO TELEPHONE HIM UPON MY ARR IN ORDER TO SCHEDULE A LATER ARR INTO BARKSDALE. I DEPARTED AERO COUNTY ARPT AT XC10 AND CONTINUED VFR ALONG MY RTE UNTIL I ARRIVED AT SHREVEPORT DOWNTOWN ARPT AT XD40. THE VFR SECTIONAL CHART BY WHICH I NAVED INDICATED THAT CTLED AIRSPACE COMMENCED AT 1600 FT MSL. ACCORDINGLY; I APCHED SHREVEPORT DOWNTOWN ARPT AT AN ALT OF 1300 FT MSL IN ORDER TO STAY CLR OF THE CTLED AIRSPACE. THE VFR CHART INDICATED A CTAF FREQ OF 123.0. ACCORDINGLY; I FLEW A NORMAL L-HAND TFC PATTERN; MAKING ALL TA CALLS ON 123.0 AND LNDG ON RWY 15 AT SHREVEPORT DOWNTOWN. AFTER TAXIING TO THE RAMP AND SHUTTING DOWN MY ACFT; I WAS APCHED AND INFORMED THAT I WAS REQUIRED TO CALL REGIONAL APCH CTL AS A TEMPORARY FLT RESTR WAS IN EFFECT FROM XD30 UNTIL XE00 FOR AN AREA WITHIN A 10 NM RADIUS OF BARKSDALE AFB. ADDITIONALLY; I WAS INFORMED THAT SHREVEPORT DOWNTOWN ARPT NOW HAD A CTL TWR IN PLACE AND WAS NO LONGER OPERATING UNDER CTAF RULES FOR AN UNCTLED ARPT. I HAVE LEARNED THE FOLLOWING FROM THIS INCIDENT: 1) DO NOT RELY SOLELY ON A TELEPHONE BRIEFING FOR INFO REGARDING EXISTING NOTAMS; 2) DO NOT RELY SOLELY ON INFO PRINTED ON CURRENT VFR CHARTS FOR FREQ INFO OR INDICATION OF AN EXISTING CTL TWR AND CTLED AIRSPACE. THIS INCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED HAD I CONTACTED REGIONAL APCH RATHER THAN SIMPLY STAYING CLR OF PUBLISHED CTLED AIRSPACE AND CONDUCTING AN UNCTLED VFR APCH AND LNDG.