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McClellan Air Force Base (1935–2001) is a former United States Air Force base in California, located in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County, ...
Founded as the Air Force Logistics Museum of the West in 1982, the name of the museum was quickly changed to the McClellan Aviation Museum less than a year later. [2] [3] It was chartered by the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The McClellan Aviation Museum housed a collection of aircraft and other objects associated with the ...
McClellan Park sits at an elevation of 69 feet (21 m). [3] The 2010 United States Census reported that McClellan Park's population was 743. It is the site of the former McClellan Air Force Base, closed by the federal government in 2003. McClellan Air Force Base (currently McClellan Park) was named in honor of test pilot Hezekiah McClellan. [5]
After the war McClellan became a storage center of several types of aircraft including B-29 bombers. The base was renamed McClellan Air Force Base in 1948 and its repair and overhaul mission continued throughout the Cold War as an installation of the Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) and later the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), with the ...
Tetra Tech Awarded $17.8 Million Environmental Remediation Program at Former McClellan Air Force Base PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tetra Tech, Inc. (NAS: TTEK) announced today that it has ...
The air force base was established in 1935. It was named after Major Hezekiah McClellan on 1 December 1939, a pioneer in arctic aeronautical tests. Born in 1894, he died on 25 May 1936 when his Consolidated P-30 which he was flight testing, crashed near Centerville, Ohio .
Force-landed in a muddy field near McClellan AFB following an engine fire; all 18 crew survived. [58] May 14, 1958: R7V-1 131652 — 5: Broke up in mid-air and crashed after performing a series of accelerated stalls, killing all five crew. The elevator boost system linkage failed, allowing the elevator to travel to the full up position. [59 ...
55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, McClellan AFB, California, 1963–1969; 57th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Hickam AFB Hawaii xxxx–1969; The first of 34 WB-47Es was delivered to the AWS on 20 March 1963. The last operational USAF B-47 to fly was WB-47E-75-BW (51-7066) of the 57th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron on 30 October 1969.