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Whiteman Air Force Base (IATA: SZL, ICAO: KSZL, FAA LID: SZL) is a United States Air Force base located just south of Knob Noster, Missouri, United States. The base is the current home of the B-2 Spirit bomber. It is named for 2nd Lt George Whiteman, who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The 351st Strategic Missile Wing was the third United States Air Force LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM wing, the second with the LGM-30B Minuteman I.After the announcement on 14 June 1961, there were second thoughts about the choice as original plans called for launchers to be spread into the Lake of the Ozarks region.
The City of Kansas City built Grandview Airport (IATA code GVW) in 1941. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces I Troop Carrier Command built a facility on part of the airfield in 1944 which was used as a sub-base for Sedalia AAF (later Whiteman Air Force Base) for overflow traffic and training uses.
Whiteman Air Force Base: Knob Noster: Missouri: Air Force Global Strike Command: 509th Bomb Wing: The 509th Bomb Wing and the Missouri Air National Guard's 131st Bomb Wing operates the B-2A Spirit, T-38A Talon.
Luke AFB, Arizona: F-35A [518] LF: 309th Fighter Squadron: Wild Ducks [519] Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 56 FW: 30 January 1942 [520] Luke AFB, Arizona: F-16C [521] LF: 310th Fighter Squadron: Top Hats [522] Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 56 FW: 9 February 1942 [523] Luke AFB, Arizona: F ...
Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona (1 October 1976 – 1 June 1992) 355th Fighter Wing; Donaldson AFB, South Carolina (16 October 1950 – 20 July 1951) 375th Troop Carrier Wing (1950) 443d Troop Carrier Wing (1950–1951) Dow AFB, Maine (20 November 1946 – 1 December 1948) 14th Fighter Group; Dover AFB, Delaware (1 April 1946 – 1 December 1948)
The 358th Fighter Squadron is part of the 495th Fighter Group at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.The squadron was reactivated there in 2015. The squadron was formerly part of the 355th Operations Group at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, operating the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft conducting close air support missions, until its 2014 inactivation.
B-2 Spirit from Whiteman Air Force Base over St. Louis, the former home of the 131st Bomb Wing. The 131st Bomb Wing's transition to Air Force Global Strike Command occurred on 4 October 2008 when the 131st Bomb Wing held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Whiteman AFB. The ceremony celebrated the first official drill for traditional guardsmen at ...