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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.
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 ...
Added to NRHP. May 21, 1970. The Edward H. White II Museum of Aerospace Medicine was a museum of the United States Air Force and was located in Hangar 9 at Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. [2] Brooks Air Force Base closed in 2011 under Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) procedures, and the museum closed at the same time.
The Air Force Research Laboratory ( AFRL) is a scientific research and development detachment of the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of direct-energy based aerospace warfighting technologies, planning and executing the Air Force science and technology program, and ...
The first Primary Course in Aviation Medicine was held at the new campus on Brooks AFB 11 August 1959. On 8 August 1961 the School name was changed to The School of Aerospace Medicine. On 21 November 1963, President John F. Kennedy dedicated the new school complex at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas the day before he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has received a donation of 75 significant works — including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and videos — by Black artists, museum officials ...
June 28, 2024 at 3:05 PM. A Shelby County chancellor has denied a request for a temporary injunction filed in an attempt to halt construction of the new Memphis Brooks Museum of Art along Front ...
Randolph Air Force Base (IATA: RND, ICAO: KRND, FAA LID: RND) is a United States Air Force base located at Universal City, Texas (14.8 miles (23.8 km) east-northeast of Downtown San Antonio). Opened in 1931, Randolph has been a flying training facility for the United States Army Air Corps , the United States Army Air Forces , and the Air Force ...