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Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois (closed in 1993) Hanna City Air Force Station , Hanna City, Illinois (closed in 1968; now site of an FAA Long Range Radar ) Scott Air Force Base , Shiloh, Illinois
Major USAF communications base. RAF Daws Hill (Closed 1969) RAF East Kirkby (closed by SAC – 1958) RAF Greenham Common; SAC deployments ended 1966, placed in reserve status by USAFE Used as BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile base, 1982–1991: RAF Homewood Park (Hospital), (Closed by SAC 1957)
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
On Sept. 8, 2005, the Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) gave President George W. Bush a list of 20 major military installations that it had determined were no ...
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at Category:Former military installations of the United States. A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which the U.S. Department of Defense groups its infrastructure, and is statutorily defined as any “base, camp, post ...
Pages in category "Installations of the United States Air Force in Illinois" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990 provided "the basic framework for the transfer and disposal of military installations closed during the base realignment and closure (BRAC) process". [3] The process was created in 1988 to reduce pork barrel politics with members of Congress that arise when facilities face activity reductions ...