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Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Yokota Friendship Festival 2005. September - Yokota Air Base friendship festival [8] September - Misawa Air Show (also a JASDF base) [2]
The facility which houses Yokota Air Base was originally constructed by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in 1940 as Tama Airfield, and used as a flight test center. During World War II Yokota became the center of Japanese Army Air Forces flight test activities and the base was the site of the first meeting between Japanese and Italian wartime allies.
The 1951 Sunagawa United Air Force B-29 Superfortress crash occurred on November 18, 1951, when a B-29 bomber from Yokota Air Base crashed during takeoff in Sunagawa, Hokkaido, Tokyo. The aircraft, carrying bombs, exploded upon impact, causing a fire that destroyed over 100 buildings and killed 15 people, including 10 firefighters.
• US Air Force Senior Airman Brian K. Johnson, 32, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, a flight engineer assigned to the 21st Special Operations Squadron, 353rd Special Operations Wing, Yokota Air Base, Japan.
Yokota Air Base, a US Air Force Base located in Tokyo, Japan; Harima-Yokota Station; ... This page was last edited on 21 October 2024, at 15:32 (UTC).
TOKYO — All eight crew members aboard a U.S. military Osprey aircraft that crashed off the coast of Japan last week have been confirmed dead, the Air Force said.. The CV-22B Osprey crashed into ...
One Japanese military base in Saga prefecture has postponed Osprey flight exercises planned for Thursday. US and Japanese officials said the aircraft belonged to Yokota air base in western Tokyo ...
Pusan West Air Base (K-1), South Korea, 3 December 1950; Misawa Air Base, Japan, 25 May 1951; Johnson Air Base, Japan, 1 July 1951 (detachment at Komaki Air Base, Japan, 13 July 1953 – 17 February 1955) Yokota Air Base, Japan, 13 August 1954 – c. 15 June 1965; Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 20 June 1965 – 15 October 1970