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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.
1.32 (Spokane AFB) Fairchild AFB 20 Jul 1951, Spokane, WA. (H). ... 3902d Air Base Wing 1979–1986; 4231st Strategic Wing 1959–1962; 4321st Strategic Wing 1959–1962;
LGM-30G Minuteman III base with launch facilities throughout south-east Wyoming, western Nebraska, and northern Colorado, supported by the wing's UH-1N Iroquois helicopters. It hosts the headquarters of the Twentieth Air Force, which is responsible for the USAF's Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). [20] Fairchild Air Force Base ...
Fairchild AFB: Previously designated 256th Combat Communications Squadron ... Joint Base Langley–Eustis: U.S. Air Force Reserve References See also. List of United ...
Fairchild AFB: SM-65E Atlas, 1960–1965 1960–1965 92d SAW 568th Strategic Missile Squadron: Larson AFB: SM-68 Titan I 1961–1965 1961–1965 462d SAW 569th Strategic Missile Squadron: Mountain Home AFB: SM-68 Titan I 1962–1964 1961–1964 9th SAW 570th Strategic Missile Squadron: Davis–Monthan AFB: LGM-25C Titan II, 1962–1984 1962 ...
Jun. 19—In Fairchild Air Force Base's 82nd year in operation, planes will again take to the skies this week to perform precision skydiving and midair refueling in front of thousands of people.
It is managed by Fairchild AFB. It includes service men and families. The original grass field for Memorial Stadium (now Joe Albi Stadium ) was taken from the lush sod of the parade grounds at the fort in the summer of 1950.
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.