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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. ... In 2022 Google Maps imagery, ...
The LLRVs, humorously referred to as "Flying Bedsteads", were used by the FRC, now known as the Armstrong Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's airless environment.
Plant 42 is owned by the United States Air Force and operated as a component of Edwards Air Force Base, which is 23 mi (37 km) northeast. [citation needed] Most of its facilities are operated by private contractors to build and maintain military aircraft and their components for the United States and its allies.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Edwards Air Force Base (2 C, 92 P) Pages in category "Military facilities in the Mojave Desert"
Edwards Air Force Base in California was the site of the first Space Shuttle landing, and became a back-up site to the prime landing location, the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center.
Similarly, the British Royal Air Force’s (RAF) XVII Test and Evaluation Squadron, which was established to help bring F-35 aircraft into service, is based at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
One other B-52H (61-0025) was flown for many years by the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards, and was transferred to NASA on 30 July 2001 as a replacement for the RB-52B. On 9 May 2008, that aircraft was flown for the last time to Sheppard AFB , Texas where it became a GB-52H maintenance trainer, never to fly again.
Air Force Station (sometimes Air Station), Air Reserve Station or Air National Guard Station is used to name installations, typically but not exclusively without a flying mission, that are operated by a unit of at least squadron size, that does not otherwise meet the criteria of being a base. Air Force Auxiliary Airfield is used if the ...