Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
McConnell Air Force Base (IATA: IAB, ICAO: KIAB, FAA LID: IAB) is a United States Air Force base located four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.
After WWII and into the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force decided they needed an air base in centrally located Kansas which would later become McConnell Air Force Base, a Strategic Air Command base until mid-1992 when it became an Air Combat Command base, and December 1993 when it became an Air Mobility Command base. The Air Force didn't want to spend ...
This is a list of United States Air Force air refueling squadrons. Air refueling squadrons Squadron Shield Location Nickname Note Status 2nd Air Refueling Squadron McGuire AFB "Second to None" KC-46 Pegasus 6th Air Refueling Squadron Travis AFB, Fairfield CA Strength Extended KC-10 Extender 7th Air Refueling Squadron Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth TX KC-135A Inactivated 1993 9th Air Refueling ...
The 22d Air Refueling Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Mobility Command 's Eighteenth Air Force. It is stationed at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas and also functions as the host wing for McConnell. Its primary mission is to provide global reach by conducting air refueling and airlift where and when needed.
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.
VP. The 533rd Training Squadron ( 533 TRS) is a United States Space Force unit. It is assigned to the Space Training and Readiness Command, California, where it trains Space Force personnel on space systems. It was activated in this role in 1994. The squadron was first activated in 1942 as the 533d Bombardment Squadron.
Wichita Army Airfield (now McConnell Air Force Base) is located at the site of Wichita's original municipal airport, which shared a runway with the Boeing Aircraft Wichita facility. Boeing produced B-29 Superfortresses at Wichita and the USAAF Air Materiel Command took over control of the airport in 1942 to accept, service and coordinate the ...
Four people were killed at this location. At 6:24 p.m. CDT (23:24 UTC), the violent tornado struck the McConnell Air Force Base, where it narrowly missed a lineup of 10 B-1B bombers each worth $280 million and 2 of which were equipped with nuclear warheads.