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March ARB is located at 33.889°N 117.260°W (33.889, −117.260). [38] According to the United States Census Bureau, the base has a total area of 12.0 square miles (31 km 2 ), all of it land. The United States Census Bureau has designated the base as its own census-designated place for statistical purposes.
Edwards Air Force Base ( AFB) ( IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in California. Most of the base sits in Kern County, but its eastern end is in San Bernardino County and a southern arm is in Los Angeles County. The hub of the base is Edwards, California.
Aerospace Defense Command. Hamilton Field ( Hamilton AFB) was a United States Air Force base, which was inactivated in 1973, decommissioned in 1974, and put into a caretaker status with the Air Force Reserve until 1976. It was transferred to the United States Army in 1983 and was designated an Army Airfield until its BRAC closure in 1988.
Beale AFB was established in 1942 as Camp Beale and is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and a Brigadier General in the California Militia, who was an explorer and frontiersman in California. Camp Beale became a United States Air Force installation on 1 April 1951 and was renamed Beale Air Force Base.
1940–present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in California for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of Fourth Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC). However, Air Technical Service Command ...
Travis Air Force Base. / 38.26278°N 121.92750°W / 38.26278; -121.92750 ( Travis AFB) Travis Air Force Base ( IATA: SUU, ICAO: KSUU, FAA LID: SUU) is a United States Air Force base under the operational control of Air Mobility Command (AMC), located three miles (5 km) east of the central business district of the city of Fairfield ...
George Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, 8 miles northwest, of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California . Established by the United States Army Air Corps as an Advanced Flying School in June 1941, it was closed at the end of World War II.
Sacramento Air Logistics Center. Airfield information. Identifiers. FAA LID: MCC, WMO: 0724836. Elevation. 23 metres (75 ft) AMSL. McClellan Air Force Base (1935–2001) is a former United States Air Force base located in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Sacramento, California.