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The base's host unit, the 60th Air Mobility Wing, is the largest wing in the Air Force's Air Mobility Command, with a versatile fleet of 26 C-5 Galaxies, KC-46 Pegasus, and 13 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft.
Category: Military facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. 1 language. ... Hamilton Air Force Base; Hamilton Field (Hamilton AFB) Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
In 1930, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly US$480,000 (equivalent to $8,754,741 in 2023) raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County, [10] then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon.
Hamilton Field (Hamilton AFB) was a United States Air Force base, which was inactivated in 1973, decommissioned in 1974, and put into a caretaker status with the Air Force Reserve until 1976. It was transferred to the United States Army in 1983 and was designated an Army Airfield until its BRAC closure in 1988.
Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres (32,000 m 2; 3.2 ha) at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. The massive hangar has long been one of the most recognizable landmarks of California's Silicon Valley.
Randolph Air Force Base: San Antonio: Texas: 2010 Realigned as part of Joint Base San Antonio [11] Reese Air Force Base: Lubbock: Texas: 1997 Closed [17] Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base: Kansas City: Missouri: 1994 Closed Sampson Air Force Base: Geneva: New York: 1956 Realigned to the US Army as Sampson Army Airfield: San Bernardino Air Force ...
Pillar Point Air Force Station. Pillar Point Air Force Station, formerly Pillar Point Military Reservation, is a United States Armed Forces facility on 48 acres overlooking Pillar Point Harbor, California. Pillar Point is 15 miles south of the City of San Francisco in San Mateo County.
Mount Tamalpais Air Force Station was the military installation where the 666th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated on January 1, 1951. [6] [7] [8] The squadron "began operating a pair of AN/CPS-6B radars at this Bay-area site in late 1951".