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Sheppard Air Force Base ( IATA: SPS, ICAO: KSPS, FAA LID: SPS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located five miles (8.0 km) north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the largest training base and most diversified in Air Education and Training Command.
Martindale Army Air Field: San Antonio Dyess Air Force Base: Abilene: Goodfellow Air Force Base: San Angelo: Laughlin Air Force Base: Del Rio: Sheppard Air Force Base: Wichita Falls: Fort Cavazos: Killeen: Fort Bliss: El Paso: Fort Wolters: Mineral Wells: Corpus Christi Naval Air Station: Corpus Christi: Naval Air Station Kingsville: Kingsville ...
1940–present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces established numerous airfields in Texas for training pilots and aircrews. The amount of available land and the temperate climate made Texas a prime location for year-round military training. By the end of the war, 65 Army airfields were built in the state.
Call Field is a former World War I military airfield, located 4.6 miles (7.4 km) southwest of Wichita Falls, Texas. It operated as a training field for the United States Army Air Service between 1917 until 1919. The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established in 1918 after the United States entry into World War I.
The Tenth Air Force ( 10 AF) is a unit of the U.S. Air Force, specifically a numbered air force of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC). 10 AF is headquartered at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base /Carswell Field (formerly Carswell AFB ), Texas. The command directs the activities of 14,000 Air Force Reservists and 950 civilians ...
United States ( Alaska ) 52°42′44″N 174°06′49″E. / 52.71222°N 174.11361°E / 52.71222; 174.11361 ( Eareckson Air Station) Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center. Contractor operated diversion airfield and AN/FPS-108 COBRA DANE surveillance radar. [194] [195] Eielson Air Force Base.
The City of Houston annexed Ellington Air Force Base in the 1960s. Air Defense Command / Aerospace Defense Command. Ellington AFB was selected as one of the first of twenty-four Air Defense Command stations of the permanent United States surveillance radar network. On 2 December 1948, the Air Force directed the Army Corps of Engineers to ...
Wichita Falls Regional Airport. / 33.98889°N 98.49194°W / 33.98889; -98.49194. Wichita Falls Regional Airport ( IATA: SPS [3], ICAO: KSPS, FAA LID: SPS) is a public and military use airport six miles north of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas. [2] Its runways and taxiways are shared with Sheppard Air Force Base; most operations ...