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Smoky Hill High School, commonly Smoky or SHHS, is located in Aurora, Colorado, United States. It has an attendance of 2,133. Smoky Hill is part of the Cherry Creek School District and was the second high school built by the district in 1974. The name originates from the Smoky Hill Trail, a historic trail stretching from Kansas to Denver. The ...
In 2011, the district opened the Institute of Science and Technology, a campus devoted specifically to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. The building, located at 12500 E. Jewell Avenue in Aurora, is part of the Overland High School-Prairie Middle School campus.
The Great Plains Joint Training Center is an Army National Guard facility owned and operated by the state of Kansas Adjutant General's Office. It is located on the site of the Smoky Hill Bombing Range, part of the former Schilling Air Force Base near Salina, Kansas. The bombing range is now known as the Smoky Hill Weapons Range and is one of ...
Smoky Hill can refer to: Smoky Hill City, Kansas; Smoky Hill River; Smoky Hill Township (disambiguation) Smoky Hill High School Aurora, Colorado; See also.
Smoky Hill AAF and Topeka AAF became major United States Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases (Schilling AFB, Forbes AFB). In the 1960s and early 1970s, the active duty Air Force presence was withdrawn and were turned over to the local communities for redevelopment while retaining military cantonment areas for the Air National Guard.
The Smoky Hills Public Television Corporation was founded in 1978, with the intent to start a non-commercial educational television station in western Kansas. This region is part of the Wichita–Hutchinson Plus market, an unusually large market that covers over 70 counties stretching from the Flint Hills to the Colorado border–almost three-fourths of the state.
Along with Pratt Army Airfield near Pratt, Great Bend Army Airfield near Great Bend and Smoky Hill Army Airfield near Salina the initial cadre of the 58th Bombardment Wing was formed. The 58th Bomb Wing was the first B-29 combat wing of World War II and engaged in the first long-range strategic bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands beginning ...
As the USAF Combat Crew Training School, the unit conducted pilot training in the F-105 for nine years. On 1 October 1973, the 184th assumed the responsibility of operating and maintaining the Smoky Hill Weapons Range at Salina, Kansas. With over 36,000 acres, Smoky Hill is the Air National Guard's largest weapons range.