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SCCU was formed in 1951 as the Patrick Air Force Base Credit Union, serving Patrick Space Force Base (at the time known as Patrick Air Force Base). [3] The credit union started with $372 and 7 members. The company changed its name to Space Coast Credit Union in 1980. [4] In 2009, SCCU merged with Eastern Financial Florida Credit Union, growing ...
The organization that is now Wright-Patt Credit Union was founded in 1932. It was during the national economic depression of the early 1930s (the Great Depression) that federal employees at Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) recognized the need for an “every person” financial institution.
Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division (PAA GMRD) was a distinct division of Pan American World Airways in the period 1950-1980, responsible as prime contractor of the U.S. Air Force Eastern Test Range, based out of Patrick Air Force Base, Florida.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was redesignated from the Air Force Technical Base on 13 January 1948 [25] —the former Wright Field Areas A and B remained, [citation needed] while Patterson Field became "Area C" and Skyway Park became "Area D" of the installation. In 1951 all locally based flying activities were moved to the Area B flight line.
It provides electronic financial transactions services to the military banking and defense credit union sector. [1] It connects approximately 346 banks and credit unions with over 800,000 ATMs and 2.3 million point-of-sale locations that are often in or near military bases both in the United States and overseas.
The base was transferred from the Strategic Air Command (SAC) to the Air National Guard and redesignated Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base on April 1, 1980. Current Rickenbacker Tower The base was recommended for closure by the 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission , which would have moved the 121st Air Refueling Wing and the 160th ...
Soarion Credit Union (Soarion), formerly known as AFFCU, is a federal credit union [3] that was founded in November 1952 by 10 airmen volunteers. [4] In 1953, it was operating from a one-room office on Lackland Air Force Base. On April 2, 2024, AFFCU changed its name to Soarion Credit Union. [5]
From Patrick, DB and QB-17s could take off and missiles could be test fired from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 3 over the Atlantic Missile Range. One such trial on 23 October 1957 (Bomarc 624–11) saw the unarmed missile destroy a Flying Fortress target by a direct collision, more than 100 miles from the missile's launch point.