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Grissom Air Reserve Base is a United States Air Force base, located about 12 miles (19 km) north of Kokomo in Cass and Miami counties in Indiana. The facility was established as a U.S. Navy installation, Naval Air Station Bunker Hill, in 1942 and was an active Air Force installation, Bunker Hill Air Force Base from 1954 to 1968, and Grissom Air Force Base from 1968 to 1994.
It is the civil redevelopment of the former Grissom Air Force Base, which was realigned as part of the 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission process. Grissom Aeroplex consists of 850+ acres and existing buildings under control of Miami County Economic Development Authority.
The museum's origins date to 1981, when the Grissom Air Force Base Heritage Museum Foundation was formed by John Crume and other military veterans to preserve the aircraft located at the base. [1] [2] The Grissom Air Museum was started in 1987 when aircraft were moved to an area outside the northern main gate from a location on base. [citation ...
Map of the small U.S. military installations, ranges and training areas in the continental United States. This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world.
Sep. 26—KC-135R Stratotankers and the airmen who fly, maintain and support them began returning home Monday as Grissom Air Reserve Base's runway reopened following a nearly $60 million ...
Air Force Station (sometimes Air Station), Air Reserve Station or Air National Guard Station is used to name installations, typically but not exclusively without a flying mission, that are operated by a unit of at least squadron size, that does not otherwise meet the criteria of being a base. Air Force Auxiliary Airfield is used if the ...
Nov. 28—Grissom Air Reserve Base in Peru is one of three bases in the country under consideration to support a new U.S. Air Force installation for aerial refueling and airlift. The USAF is ...
Redesignated as Gunter Annex, part of Maxwell Air Force Base: Grissom Air Force Base: Bunker Hill: Indiana: 1994 Redesignated as Grissom Air Reserve Base: Hamilton Air Force Base: Novato: California: 1976 Realigned to the US Army as Hamilton Army Airfield in 1983 Harlingen Air Force Base: Harlingen: Texas: 1962 Closed Hobbs Air Force Base ...