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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.
Used as the trials aircraft for armament development and external fuel stores testing. Assigned to the F-15 Joint Test Force at Edwards Air Force Base, Sep 1973 to Nov 1980. Withdrawn from use and redesignated GF-15A. Was at Technical Training Center, Chanute AFB from Mar 1982 to Aug 1990. Formerly displayed at the Chanute Air Museum, IL.
Army Air Force Training Command. Chanute Field, Rantoul; Eastern Technical Training Center (Metrological School; adv. Specialities) 9th Army Air Force Base Unit Was: Chanute Air Force Base (1917-1993) Now: Rantoul National Aviation Center (ICAO: KTIP, FAA LID: TIP) Curtis-Parks AAF, East St. Louis; Contract Pilot School Now: St. Louis Downtown ...
Chanute Air Force Base: Rantoul: Illinois: 1993 Closed ... Active United States Army training facility for Iraqi police and soldiers. Najaf Airbase (Closed 2008)
Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois (closed in 1993) Hanna City Air Force Station, Hanna City, Illinois (closed in 1968; now site of an FAA Long Range Radar) Scott Air Force Base, Shiloh, Illinois
Air Training Command got on with the task of consolidating training and in Fiscal Years 1993 and 1994, executed BRAC-directed closures of Chanute AFB, Mather AFB, Williams AFB, and Lowry AFB. However, despite the return to tightened budgets, ATC did not back off from its commitment to fully train personnel to be mission ready upon arrival at ...
The entire left side of a parked B-1B bomber at Dyess AFB was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived after the aircraft caught fire on April 20.
Technical training expanded in 1938 at Lowry Field, Colorado, when the Photography, Armament and Clerical instruction were moved from Chanute to the new facilities in Denver. In 1939, Scott Field , Illinois, came under the Air Corps Technical School when the Department of Basic Instruction, responsible for the basic training of all new recruits ...