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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 ...
An academic building was renamed Grissom Hall in 1968 at the former Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, where Minuteman missile maintenance training was conducted. It was one of five buildings renamed for deceased Air Force personnel. [106] [107]
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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On display F-4C-21. 37683 – Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio, Santiago. 31 December 1964: first deployed to the 8th TFW GAFB, California; assigned to the 431st TFS. 4 February 1967: assigned to the 366th TFW, Southeast Asia. 15 January 1968: assigned to the 347th TFW. 12 January 1970: transferred to 4452d CCTS, GAFB, CA. 5 April 1972: assigned to the 183d TFG. 10 December 1980 ...