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Sheppard Air Force Base (IATA: SPS, ICAO: KSPS, FAA LID: SPS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located five miles (8.0 km) north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the largest training base and most diversified in Air Education and Training Command.
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Wichita Falls Regional Airport (IATA: SPS [3], ICAO: KSPS, FAA LID: SPS) is a public and military use airport six miles north of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas. [2] Its runways and taxiways are shared with Sheppard Air Force Base; most operations are military, but American Eagle flies commercial flights to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
The 3630th Flying Training Wing was activated at Sheppard Air Force Base on 10 December 1965 to provide pilot training for the German Air Force. It was discontinued and replaced by the 80th Flying Training Wing' in 1972 as part of an Air Training Command program to replace its four-digit Major Command controlled wings with wings that had a ...
In 1951, the United States Air Force brought proceedings to condemn and acquire the Wichita Municipal Airport for what was to become McConnell Air Force Base. Wichita's park board quickly acquired 1,923 acres (778 ha) of land in southwest Wichita, and the construction of a new "Wichita Municipal Airport" took about three and a half years.
The instructor pilot was in a T-6A Texan II at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, when the seat activated during ground operations on Monday. The pilot was taken to a hospital and ...
Provide global air mobility through airlift and aerial refueling for all of the United States Armed Forces. Air Force component of United States Transportation Command: Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Hickam AFB, Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hawaii, U.S. Gen Kevin B. Schneider: Provide Air Force component units for United States Indo-Pacific Command
Interstate 44 (I-44 [a]) in the U.S. state of Texas is an Interstate Highway that has a short, but regionally important, 15.398-mile (24.781 km) stretch connecting Wichita Falls with Oklahoma. Its entire length runs concurrently with U.S. Highway 277 (US 277) and US 281. I-44 provides access to downtown Wichita Falls and Sheppard Air Force Base.