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This joint use civil and military airfield is the US Air Force Electronic Systems Center under the Air Force Material Command. The facility is responsible to provide research, development, training and evaluation (RDT&E) of command, control communication, computer intelligence (CCCCI) interface with industry.
A non-flying base, Hanscom Air Force Base is named after Laurence G. Hanscom (1906–1941), a pilot, aviation enthusiast, and State House reporter who was killed in a plane crash at Saugus, Massachusetts. Hanscom was a reporter for the Boston Globe, Worcester Telegram & Gazette and the Wilmington (MA) News.
Air Force Station (sometimes Air Station), Air Reserve Station or Air National Guard Station is used to name installations, typically but not exclusively without a flying mission, that are operated by a unit of at least squadron size, that does not otherwise meet the criteria of being a base. Air Force Auxiliary Airfield is used if the ...
The 551st Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing was activated at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts in December 1954. [2] The wing was assigned to the 8th Air Division, which had been formed earlier that year at McClellan Air Force Base, California to oversee the build up of Air Defense Command (ADC)'s airborne early warning and control force ...
Hanscom Field: Hanscom Air Force Base: Bedford: Massachusetts: BED / KBED / BED: Operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority, with very few military flights [2] Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport: Eglin Air Force Base: Valparaiso: Florida: VPS / KVPS / VPS: Civilian airport located on United States Air Force owned land Schenectady County Airport
The 66th ABG provide services to over 5,000 active duty, Reserve and National Guard military personnel and DoD civilians who work and live at Hanscom Air Force Base. Additionally, the 66 ABG supports over 100,000 retired military personnel, annuitants and spouses living in the six-state New England area and New York.
Hanscom is mainly a general aviation airport, the largest in New England. Both runways can accommodate jets, and are used by Hanscom Air Force Base, a defense-research facility next to Hanscom Field. It is a popular training airport, with more than 40 rental aircraft on the field.
The Air Force assumed operations in 1960 with test activities of the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) at Eglin AFB, Florida having claimancy responsibilities. The site also had a concurrent air defense mission as part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) with an initial radar station site code J-08 that was later changed to Z-399 [ 4 ...