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Robins Air Force Base (IATA: WRB, ICAO: KWRB) is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States. The base is located just east of the city of Warner Robins , 18 mi (29 km) south-southeast of Macon and approximately 100 mi (160 km) south-southeast of Atlanta , Georgia.
It is stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia as a tenant unit. The 413 FTG conducts flight tests on aircraft after the programmed depot maintenance is completed. Its history goes back to 1944 when the 413th Fighter Group flew very long range (VLR) escort missions of Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombardment groups against Japan.
A missile-damaged C-5 Galaxy receives repair of battle damage at Warner Robins. The 78th Air Base Wing, the host organization at Robins AFB, provides support facilities and equipment for all Robins Air Force Base associate units. It is responsible for logistics, medical, civil engineering, security, and morale services for a base population of ...
Robins Air Force Base visitors may experience delays next month as the base’s prominent Russell Parkway entrance is repaved. Additional entrances will be opened to help reduce congestion.
Fifty-four F-84Es had to be obtained from Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas and Langley Air Force Base, Virginia as partial replacements for these Thunderjets. The 116th FBG with the 158th and 159th FBS's departed from San Diego on the transport aircraft carrier USS Windham Bay on 12 July, white the 196th FBS had preceded them by two days on the ...
Warner-Robins Air Force Base was a major point on the Logair network, so Macon was convenient. Hawaiian used Lockheed L-188 Electra freighter aircraft. The airline won an Air Force contract for 1976–1977, [ 7 ] but then lost the lease of the aircraft it was using and was unable to bid for 1977–1978. [ 8 ]
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Today, the 165th Airlift Wing flies the C-130H Hercules. Georgia Air National Guard 116th and 165th Security Forces Squadron members in riot gear, June 2020. On 1 April 1996, the 116th Fighter Wing was moved from Marietta to Robins Air Force Base, near Warner-Robins in central Georgia. The 116th became a B-1B Lancer Bomb Wing.