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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 group is assigned to the 442d Fighter Wing, at Whiteman AFB, Missouri. The 476th Fighter Group is an Air Force Reserve associate unit linked to the active duty 23d Fighter Group (23 FG) at Moody. The 442 oversees the 476th's administrative and mission-support needs not provided by Moody AFB's host active duty wing, the 23rd Wing (23 WG).
Holloman AFB: Consolidated-Vultee Lark 1950–1951 Evaluated/testing US Navy Lark SS Missile at Patrick AFB. Re-designated 4803d Guided Missile Squadron 30 Dec 1950 – 14 May 1951. Returned to Patrick AFB and re-designated 6556th Guided Missile Squadron, 14 May 1951 – 1 Mar 1953. 6th Air Defense Missile Squadron: Suffolk County AFB
Douglas C-47A-15-DK Skytrain Serial 42-92879 of the 303d TCS/442nd TCG at Fullbeck in Normandy invasion markings. The squadron was constituted on 28 May 1943 and activated on 1 September, as the 303d Troop Carrier Squadron, one of four squadrons assigned to the 442d Troop Carrier Group at Sedalia Army Air Field, now Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.
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 ...
The wing was first activated as the 442d Troop Carrier Wing at Fairfax Field, Kansas in June 1949, [2] when Continental Air Command (ConAC) reorganized its flying units under the wing base organization system, which united the flying units and supporting units under a single wing.
USAF Fighter Weapons School F-16 flying with a Constant Peg MiG-21 over the Nevada desert, about 1986. The USAF Weapons School traces its roots to the Aircraft Gunnery School established in 1949 at Las Vegas Air Force Base (which became Nellis Air Force Base in 1950).