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Griffiss Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force installation in the northeastern United States, located in Central New York state at Rome, about fifteen miles (25 km) northwest of Utica. Missions included fighter interceptors , electronic research, installation, and support activities, aerial refueling , and bombers .
Renamed Griffiss Air Force Base on 23 Jan 1948 [5], the World War II installation's buildings were used as post-war offices and laboratories, e.g., for testing units that arrived beginning in 1948 from Pennsylvania's Middletown Air Depot [4] (Griffiss had the "2 Msl Trpt Sq" 26 Jan 48-3 Sep 48.) [5]
Griffiss International Airport (IATA: RME, ICAO: KRME, FAA LID: RME) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) east of the central business district of Rome, a city in Oneida County, New York, United States. This airport is publicly owned by County of Oneida. [1] It is located on the former site of Griffiss Air Force Base, which
The storm was so powerful that it knocked a 185,000-pound (83,000-kg) B-52 bomber jet off its platform at the Griffiss Air Force Base, according to Hochul. "You cannot imagine the impact of seeing ...
The Eastern Air Defense Sector (EADS) is a United States Air Force unit of Air Combat Command (ACC), permanently assigned to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). A joint, bi-national military organization, EADS is composed of US and Canadian military forces, federal civilians and contractors.
The group's heritage was continued by the 416th Bombardment Wing (BW), a Strategic Air Command B-52 Stratofortress wing that conducted strategic bombardment training and air refueling operations on a global scale based at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. 416th BW crews and aircraft deployed to the Pacific during the Vietnam War era to ...
Aerial photo of Griffiss Air Force Base in 1997. The festival was held on the east side of Rome at the former Griffiss Air Force Base, a designated Superfund waste cleanup site. [34] The U.S. Air Force had decommissioned and closed the B-52 base in September 1995, and the area was later redeveloped as Griffiss Business and Technology Park ...
1.44 Griffiss AFB 20 September 1948, Rome, NY (H). ... The Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force, ... 3902d Air Base Wing 1979–1986;