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Clovis AAF was renamed "Clovis Air Force Base" on 13 January 1948. However, with no funds to host an active Strategic Air Command (SAC) bomb wing, Clovis AFB was placed on reserve/standby status on 1 July 1948. Its caretaker unit was the 234th Air Force Base Unit. 474th Tactical Fighter Wing Commanders' F-100D Super Sabre at Cannon AFB during ...
The 522d Fighter Squadron, known as the Fireballs, were inactivated upon their return to Cannon AFB and the 27 FW became the 27th Special Operations Group on 1 October 2007. Among the units that joined the group were the 3d SOS (MQ-1), 73d SOS (MC-130W) and 318th SOS (light transport aircraft) as well as the 20th SOS (CV-22s).
Had a TAL situation arisen during a launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Hao and Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean would have been the TAL sites, as would Andersen AFB, Guam with one of the longest concrete runways in the world. [19] [20] RAF Fairford was the only transoceanic abort landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle in the UK. As well as ...
There have been over 16,000 launches from the rocket testing range at Wallops since its founding in 1945 in the quest for information on the flight characteristics of airplanes, launch vehicles, and spacecraft, and to increase the knowledge of the Earth's upper atmosphere and the environment of outer space. The launch vehicles vary in size and ...
Cannon AFB: PC-12 [2] 319th Special Operations Squadron: Hurlburt Field: U-28A [15] 415th Special Operations Squadron: Kirtland AFB: MC-130J Commando II, HC-130J Combat King II: Training Squadron 427th Special Operations Squadron: Pope Air Force Base: 512th Special Operations Squadron: Kirtland AFB: UH-1N Twin Huey, HH-60 Pave Hawk: 6 October 2000
Aug. 31—The Air Force is investigating the release of about 7,000 gallons of water containing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or "PFAS," into a "compromised" lined retention pond at Cannon ...
Space Centre Australia secured land for main site facilities for space launch, located 43km east of Weipa, close to RAAF Scherger in 2023. [91] Final approvals may come under Mokwiri Aboriginal Corporation. [91] Previously a Cape York Space Agency was established by the government to develop a facility for Ukrainian Zenit launches at
U.S. Airmen render a salute for the posting of the colors during the 27th Special Operations Wing's change of command ceremony at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, 2 June 2017. On 1 November 1991, the 27 TFW was re-designated the 27th Fighter Wing as part of an Air Force-wide reorganization.