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Laughlin Army Air Field photo pictorial. Laughlin AFB was originally named Laughlin Army Air Field on March 3, 1943, after Jack T. Laughlin, a B-17E Flying Fortress pilot. He was trained as a pilot and was actually co-pilot of B-17E, tail number 41-2476.
Dyess Air Force Base: Abilene: Goodfellow Air Force Base: San Angelo: Laughlin Air Force Base: Del Rio: Sheppard Air Force Base: Wichita Falls: Fort Cavazos: Killeen: Fort Bliss: El Paso: Fort Wolters: Mineral Wells: Naval Air Station Corpus Christi: Corpus Christi: Naval Air Station Kingsville: Kingsville: Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base ...
The 47th Flying Training Wing is a United States Air Force pilot training wing based at Laughlin Air Force Base, near Del Rio, Texas.It is one of five pilot training units in the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command which conducts joint specialized undergraduate pilot training for the United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard and allied nation air forces ...
Biggs Field (later Biggs Air Force Base), Texas, 20 October 1946; Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 19 November 1948 – 2 October 1949; Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, 12 March 1951 – 21 May 1952; Sculthorpe RAF Station (later, RAF Sculthorpe), England, 1 June 1952 – 8 February 1955; Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, 15 December 1991 ...
In 1942, the Army Air Corps opened Laughlin Field 9 mi (14 km) east of Del Rio, as a training base for the Martin B-26, but the base was deactivated in 1945. As the Cold War pressures built, along with new border-control issues, Laughlin Field was rebuilt and renamed Laughlin Air Force Base and was again used as a home for flight training ...
Laughlin Air Force Base: Del Rio: Texas: Air Education and Training Command: 47th Flying Training Wing: Operates the T-1A Jayhawk, T-38C Talon and T-6A Texan II in the pilot training role. [34] Joint Base Lewis-McChord: Tacoma: Washington
They did so after learning that a Chinese billionaire and former Chinese People’s Liberation Army general bought over 130,000 acres of land just miles from Laughlin Air Force base in Val Verde ...
Hamilton Air Force Base, California, 24 November 1948; Castle Air Force Base, California, 1 September 1973 – 27 February 1987; Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, 2 April 1990 – 1 October 1992 [1] Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, 1 October 1998 – 24 August 2012