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Lockbourne is a village in Franklin County and Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. The population was 236 at the 2020 census . Lockbourne is located near Rickenbacker International Airport , and had initially provided its original name of Lockbourne Air Force Base.
The facility opened in June 1942 as Lockbourne Army Airfield, named for the nearby village of Lockbourne. [5] [6] Soon renamed the Northeastern Training Center of the Army Air Corps, it provided basic pilot training and military support; it also trained Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to fly B-17 bombers and glider pilots to fly the Waco CG-4A.
The base was named Lockbourne AFB from 1948 to 1974 and later Rickenbacker AFB from 1974 to 1980. The facility was transferred from Strategic Air Command and the active duty Air Force on 1 April 1980 and turned over to the Air National Guard.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Ohio. This is a list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may ...
Locally produced documentary “A Higher Law: The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858" will be shown on Saturday at the Ohio History Center.
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The villages of Lockbourne and Obetz are located in the southern and northeastern part of the township respectively. Near the southeast corner of the township lies Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base .
It was assigned to Ninth Air Force at Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, where it was inactivated on 24 December 1969. The division's components provided tactical airlift support worldwide, and after 1965, trained Lockheed C-130 Hercules crews and maintenance personnel, primarily for deployment to the Pacific and participation in the Vietnam War .