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Built as a C-133A, not known to have converted to any other configuration. To Chanute Air Force Base Apr 1971 as a training airframe. Transferred to National Museum of the United States Air Force custody Jun 1977, but remained on display at Chanute AFB, and eventually to Chanute Air Museum, IL. When this museum closed, the plane was auctioned ...
Chanute Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles (210 km) south of Chicago. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air Force technical training.
Grissom Hill, one of the Apollo 1 Hills on Mars was named by NASA on January 27, 2004, the 37th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. [101] [102] Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana, was renamed on May 12, 1968, to Grissom Air Force Base. During the dedication ceremony, his son said, "Of all the honors he won, none would please him more ...
Sep. 26—KC-135R Stratotankers and the airmen who fly, maintain and support them began returning home Monday as Grissom Air Reserve Base's runway reopened following a nearly $60 million ...
Grissom Air Reserve Base is a United States Air Force base, located about 12 miles (19 km) north of Kokomo in Cass and Miami counties in Indiana. The facility was established as a U.S. Navy installation, Naval Air Station Bunker Hill, in 1942 and was an active Air Force installation, Bunker Hill Air Force Base from 1954 to 1968, and Grissom Air Force Base from 1968 to 1994.
Apr. 16—On most days, you can find Capt. Rob Reilly at Grissom Air Reserve Base preparing and practicing for his next air refueling mission flying the KC-135R Stratotanker. But on other days ...
Amchitka Air Force Base: Rat Islands: Alaska: 1948 Closed Andrews Air Force Base: Camp Springs: Maryland: 2009 Realigned as part of Joint Base Andrews [2] Anniston Air Force Base: Talladega: Alabama: 1952 Closed Ardmore Air Force Base: Ardmore: Oklahoma: 1959 Closed Atterbury Air Force Base: Columbus: Indiana: 1954 Redesignated as Bakalar Air ...
Fleets of dozens of mysterious UFO drones are surveilling America’s most sensitive military sites, and the Pentagon admits it can’t do much to stop the aerial intruders, according to a new report.