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Brooks Air Force Base was a United States Air Force facility located in San Antonio, Texas, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Downtown San Antonio. In 2002, Brooks Air Force Base was renamed Brooks City-Base when the property was conveyed to the Brooks Development Authority as part of a project between local, state, and federal government.
Major Tactical Air Command bases and Units in the Continental United States 1946 - 1992. Altus AFB, Oklahoma. (11 June 1952 – 21 June 1954) 63d Troop Carrier Group/Wing. Bergstrom AFB, Texas. (22 March 1946 – 1 December 1948, 1 July 1957 – 1 October 1958, 1 July 1966 – 1 June 1992) 27th Fighter Wing (1957–1958) 75th Reconnaissance ...
Giebelstadt Air Base. Turned over to United States Army, 1968. Hahn Air Base (Closed 1994) Landsberg Air Base. Turned over to West German Air Force, 1957. Kaufbeuren Air Base. Turned over to West German Air Force, 1957. Munich-Riem Airport, returned to civil use, 1948. Neubiberg Air Base.
Coordinates: 35°10′15″N 79°00′52″W. Pope Field. Pope Army Airfield. Part of Fort Liberty. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina in the United States of America. Soldiers from the US Army 82nd Airborne Division prepare for a mass parachute jump from US Air Force C-130J Hercules during an exercise at Pope Field in 2013.
Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC) [ 1][ 2] was a process [ 3] by a United States federal government commission [ 4] to increase the efficiency of the United States Department of Defense by coordinating the realignment and closure of military installations following the end of the Cold War. Over 350 installations have been closed in five BRAC ...
1967. Hangar 9 is a historic aircraft hangar at Brooks City-Base, the former Brooks Air Force Base, in San Antonio, Texas. Built in 1918, it is the oldest U.S. Air Force aircraft storage and repair facility, and is the only surviving hangar, other than the ASUW Shellhouse, from World War I. The building, now rehabilitated as a special event ...
On 3 September, a B-52G (tail number 57‑6493) with the 68th Bombardment Wing out of Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina crashed between Aiken and Williston, South Carolina. While cruising at 28,000 feet (8,500 m), a fuel leak was experienced in the starboard wing which caused a structural failure of the wing, parting between the third and ...
Brooks is a mixed-use development that was founded on the former Brooks Air Force Base when the United States Air Force closed the facility in 2002.. Following the 1995 BRAC, when Brooks AFB was removed from the Base Realignment and Closure list, city, state, military, and community planners began several years of hard work to develop a plan to privatize approved the gradual transition in ...