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Mather Air Force Base was named after Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather, a 25-year-old army pilot killed in a mid-air collision while training at Ellington Field, Texas on 30 January 1918. [3] Mather learned to fly in 1914 at the Curtiss Flying School in Hammondsport, New York , and became an instructor there at the age of 20.
Sacramento Mather Airport (IATA: MHR, ICAO: KMHR, FAA LID: MHR) (Mather Airport) is a public airport 11 miles east of Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is on the site of Mather Air Force Base, which closed in 1993 pursuant to BRAC action.
As the aircraft reached its V1 speed, the captain called "rotate". The pitch then increased from 0.2 to 5.3°. Data from the control column indicated the crew at the time was still applying forward movement to the control column (nose-down input), but somehow the nose rose upward from 14.5 to 17.4° as the crew added more force to the control ...
420th Army Air Force Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station, Heavy Bombardment); 1 April 1944–31 March 1946 Was: March Air Force Base (1947–1993) Now: March Air Reserve Base Known sub-bases and auxiliaries Buffalo Springs Airport Needles Army Airfield Shavers Summit Army Airfield. Marysville Army Airfield, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Marysville.
Became 319th Air Refueling Wing in 1994. 320th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Mather AFB, California; Activated to replace: 4134th Strategic Wing B-52F, 1963–1968; B-52G, 1968–1989 441st Bombardment Squadron (a/c from 72d BS) Tenant SAC unit on ATC base. Inactivated in 1989; Mather AFB closed in 1991 per BRAC.
The 3538th Navigator Training Squadron was established at Mather Air Force Base on 1 April 1965. [15] The navigator training program at Mather expanded at this time as navigator training at James Connally Air Force Base ended and navigator training was concentrated at Mather.
As part of this reorganization, the squadron was redesignated the 449th Flying Training Squadron and replaced the 3536th Navigator Training Squadron at Mather Air Force Base, California. It conducted flight training for members of the United States military and foreign allies until inactivating in May 1993 as Mather prepared for closure.
The 904th Air Refueling Squadron, Heavy was activated on 1 March 1959 by Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Mather Air Force Base, California, as the air refueling component of the 4134th Strategic Wing. Operating Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers , it provided air refueling support to the B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers of its parent wing and ...