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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.
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
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Redesignated as Webb Air Force Base: Biggs Air Force Base: El Paso: Texas: 1966 Realigned to the US Army as Biggs Army Airfield in 1973 Blytheville Air Force Base: Blytheville: Arkansas: 1988 Redesignated as Eaker Air Force Base: Bolling Air Force Base: Southeast: Washington, D.C. 2010 Realigned as part of Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling [3 ...
Chanute Air Force Base; H. Hanna City Air Force Station; S. Scott Air Force Base This page was last edited on 26 June 2024, at 01:31 (UTC). Text is available ...
Renamed Chanute Air Force Base after World War II, it was closed in 1993, but was partly reoccupied by the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, which was permanently closed on December 30, 2015, and the Rantoul National Aviation Center. Rantoul's economy has taken a sharp decline due to the base's closing, from which it has never recovered.
Richards-Gebaur AFB, Missouri 1959-71 Selfridge AFB, Michigan 1971-93 MacDill AFB, Florida 2008-C-119, C-124, C-130 927th Air Refueling Wing (KC-135) 46th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Chanute AFB, Illinois 1959-67: Inactive (C-124) 47th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, Minnesota 1959-94
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 ...