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Chanute Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles (210 km) south of Chicago. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air Force technical training.
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First flight 21 July 1948. Test flown at Edwards Air Force Base. In 1954, 46-65 was scrapped, making 46-66 the oldest B-47 in existence, and the only surviving XB-47. Formerly displayed at the Chanute Air Museum, IL. When this museum closed, the aircraft was sent to Edwards Air Force Base, to the Air Force Flight Test Museum in 2016. Awaiting ...
A post office was established in 1856 as Rantoul Station; the name was changed to Rantoul in May 1862. [4] In 1917, Rantoul was chosen by the United States Army to be the site of Chanute Field, [6] due to its proximity to the Illinois Central railroad and the War Department's ground school at the University of Illinois. In the 1930s, Chanute ...
Dover Air Force Base, Delaware 1969-73 McGuire AFB, NJ 1973-1994: Inactive, redesignated 714th AES (C-124, C-141) 73d Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Tinker Air Force Base, OK 1970-72 Scott AFB, IL 1972-94: Inactive - redesignated 932d AES (C-124, C-9A) 74th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Westover Air Reserve Base, MA 1974-94
On 1 July 1966, the USAF Hospital at Travis AFB was designated David Grant USAF Medical Center in honor of the late Major General David Norvell Walker Grant, USAAF, MC (1891–1964), the first Surgeon General of the Army Air Corps and U.S. Army Air Forces. The medical center was a wing-equivalent as well as a tenant on Travis AFB.
Frank Worth Elliott Jr. (December 2, 1924 – October 20, 1997) [1] was a major general in the United States Air Force.General Elliott served in World War II as the captain of a B-24 Liberator, commander of the 14th Strategic Aerospace Division, and commander of Chanute Air Force Base [2] in Rantoul, Illinois.
Three small towns in southeast Kansas were vying for the railroad's land office and Chanute suggested that they incorporate, to make the larger town more attractive to the railroad. The former Chanute Air Force Base near Rantoul, Illinois, was started in 1917 by the U.S. Army as Chanute Field. The base was decommissioned in 1993 and converted ...