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Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: SKA, ICAO: KSKA, FAA LID: SKA) is a United States Air Force base, located in the northwest United States in eastern Washington, approximately twelve miles (20 km) southwest of Spokane. The host unit at Fairchild is the 92nd Air Refueling Wing (92 ARW) assigned to the Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force.
The 116th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and most of the group's support units moved to Fairchild Air Force Base, where they became part of the new 141st Air Refueling Wing. [ 7 ] The group was redesignated the 141st Operations Group and activated at Fairchild, when the 141st Wing reorganized under the Combat Wing system of organization.
The 336th Training Group is the combat survival training group of the United States Air Force. The group is located at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, with one subordinate unit at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, and one at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The Group operates the United States Air Force Survival School.
Sep. 20—Beginning Thursday morning, the military airmen of Fairchild Air Force Base marched all day and through the night in memory of those who have been prison ers of war or missing in action.
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The 116th Air Refueling Squadron (116 ARS) is a unit of the Washington Air National Guard 141st Air Refueling Wing located at Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington.. The 116th was equipped with variants of the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker from 1976 until 2007, at which time these aircraft were re-assigned to other units as a result of BRAC 20
Eastern State Hospital is situated across the lake to the west. Fairchild Air Force Base is located immediately north of the city. [10] Geologically, the city lies on basalt flows that were heavily eroded by catastrophic flooding at the end of the last Ice Age, making the city and its environs a part of the Channeled Scablands terrain. [11]
The new Netflix drama, directed by J.A. Bayona, tells the story of the disaster, which happened in October 1972 when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes mountains, immediately ...