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McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base (IATA: TYS, ICAO: KTYS, FAA LID: TYS) is a joint military facility located at McGhee Tyson Airport. [1] It is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of the central business district of Knoxville, near Alcoa, Tennessee. It was the site of McGhee Tyson Air Force Base from 1952 until 1960.
The I.G. Brown Training and Education Center is a detachment of the Air National Guard Readiness Center and is located at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base near Knoxville, Tennessee. The TEC conducts an average of 16 Enlisted Professional Military Education courses and 40 Professional Continuing Education sessions throughout the year.
The United States Air Force's 119th Command and Control Squadron (119 CACS) is a space control unit located at McGhee Tyson ANGB, Tennessee. [4] The unit augments the operations of USSTRATCOM on a continuous basis. [5] [6]
Stationed at: McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Knoxville Gained by: Air Mobility Command The 134th Air Refueling Wing in Knoxville, flying the KC-135 Stratotanker, provides the core aerial refueling capability for the United States Air Force and supports refueling operations throughout the world.
As McGhee Tyson Airport rounds out a year of record growth in air service and passenger traffic, its leaders are looking ahead to 2024, when it will kick off a period of major construction that ...
McGhee Tyson is a little farther from downtown Knoxville than Tennessee's other major airports are from their respective cities – Nashville wins at 7 miles, followed by Chattanooga at 9 miles ...
In 1961, with financing by the Tennessee Air National Guard, runway 5L was extended to 9,000 feet (2,700 m). The first scheduled airline jets were Delta DC-9s in December 1965. In 1968, McGhee Tyson built a new air cargo facility; a new passenger terminal opened in 1974, a few years after runway 18/36 closed.
McGhee Tyson had a record 2.8 million passengers in 2023 and expects over 3 million passengers this year. Drawing shows McGhee Tyson terminal expansion starting 2027 An expansion set to begin in ...