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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.
Home to the 1st Fighter Wing and the Virginia Air National Guard's 192d Fighter Wing, both flying the F-22A Raptor. The base also hosts the headquarters of Air Combat Command, the 363rd Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing and the 480th ISR Wing. [33] Laughlin Air Force Base. Del Rio.
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.
M. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow. Mira Loma Quartermaster Repair Sub-Depot. Mitchell Convalescent Hospital.
Joint Base San Antonio – located 8 kilometers (5 miles) north of San Antonio, Texas. Joint Base Langley-Eustis – located 12 kilometers (8 miles) east of Newport News, Virginia. Joint Region Marianas – combines Naval Base Guam, Andersen Air Force Base and Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz. Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall – located 1 kilometer ...
Pages in category "Installations of the United States Air Force in California" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Altus AFB, Altus, OK (H) 816th Air Division 1958–1962. 816th Strategic Aerospace Division 1962–1965. 11th Air Refueling Wing 1968–1969. 11th Bomb Wing 1957–1962. 11th Strategic Aerospace Wing 1962–1968. 96th Bomb Wing 1953–1957. 340th Air Refueling Wing 1984–1992.
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 .