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It was established in 1943 as Mile 26 Satellite Field and redesignated Eielson Air Force Base on 13 January 1948. It has been a Superfund site since 1989. [3] Eielson AFB was named in honor of polar pilot Carl Ben Eielson. [4] Its host unit is the 354th Fighter Wing (354 FW) assigned to the Eleventh Air Force of the Pacific Air Forces.
Area code 847 was created on January 20, 1996, in a three-way split of area code 708. Area code 847 was involved in the first trial of telephone number pooling in the United States in June 1998, to avert central office code exhaustion in the numbering plan area. [ 1 ]
Tinker Air Force Base: Oklahoma City: Oklahoma: Air Force Materiel Command: 72nd Air Base Wing: The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex is the primary logistics support depot for B-1B Lancer, B-2A Spirit, B-52H Stratofortress, KC-135R Stratotanker and E-3 Sentry.
Eielson Air Force Base: Fairbanks North Star: Groundwater contains lead and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, xylene, and toluene (BTEX compounds). Several areas of subsurface petroleum-contaminated soil and floating petroleum product are the sources of continuing groundwater contamination. [20] [21] 07/14/1989: 11/21/1989
Moose Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 747, [2] up from 542 in 2000. It is part of the Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. Moose Creek is located south of Fairbanks, Alaska along the Richardson Highway.
PHOTO: In this file photo, a U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs on the fourth day of the Aero India 2023 at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023.
Beale AFB, California, (1975–1976) Activated to replace: 4043d Strategic Wing B-52E, 1963–1968; B-52H, 1968–1975; B-52G, 1975–1976 34th Bombardment Squadron (B-52E a/c from 42 BS, B-52G a/c from 744 BS) Inactivated in 1976; Beale AFB became a SAC Strategic Recon base for SR-71 and U-2 operations. 19th Bombardment Wing (Heavy)
A former Air Force base responsible for potentially exposing hundreds of thousands to toxic chemicals is now a desolate wasteland that has remained abandoned in California for 32 years.