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The First Territorial Capitol of Kansas was built in 1855 at present-day Fort Riley. On June 27, 1853, Camp Center became Fort Riley — named in honor of Major General Bennet C. Riley, who had led the first military escort along the Santa Fe Trail in 1829. The "fort" took shape around a broad plain that overlooked the Kansas River valley.
Marshall Army Airfield (MAAF) (IATA: FRI, ICAO: KFRI) is a military airfield located on Fort Riley, Kansas, United States.It was opened in 1921. The primary mission of MAAF is to provide fully integrated fixed base helicopter operations for the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division.
Dover AFB is the first air force base to receive the new C-5M "Super Galaxy", receiving the aircraft on February 9, 2009 (named "The Spirit of Global Reach"). [ 9 ] On February 2, 2015, the 9,600 foot runway 01-19 was closed for repairs.
Relocated to Dover AFB, DE, 1 January 1965. Redesignated 9th Military Airlift Squadron on 8 January 1966. It also flew missions to Southeast Asia from 1965 to 1968 with C-141 Starlifters, discontinued, and inactivated, on 8 September 1968. Activated on 1 April 1971, with C-5 Galaxys.
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The Fort Riley CDP is located primarily in southern Riley County at (39.088222, -96.814092 A small portion of the CDP crosses the county line south into Geary County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13.1 km 2 ), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km 2 ), or 0.17%, is water.
The Dover AFB Historical Center was established on 13 October 1986. Only three days later, a C-47, which had previously been located at Muir Army Airfield in Pennsylvania, was airlifted to the museum. [3] [4] [5] Following official recognition as a museum by the U.S. Air Force in 1995, it became the Dover AFB Museum.
The U.S. Cavalry Museum is a museum located on Fort Riley in Fort Riley, Kansas, United States.. The Museum Division is responsible for exhibiting and interpreting the history of Fort Riley from its establishment to the present, to include its various schools, major commands, and community life.