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Altus Air Force Base (Altus AFB, AAFB) (IATA: LTS, ICAO: KLTS, FAA LID: LTS) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east-northeast of Altus, Oklahoma. The host unit at Altus AFB is the 97th Air Mobility Wing (97 AMW), assigned to the Nineteenth Air Force (19 AF) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC).
Air Base is typically but not always used to name an installation located outside the United States or its territories. Active duty Installations are normally named after notable Air Force personnel, whereas Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard installations are either named in the same manner or after the community in which they are located.
On July 1, 1961, the 577th Strategic Missile Squadron was activated at Altus Air Force Base and established twelve missile silo sites in a 40-mile radius around Altus, each with one Atlas-F nuclear missile. Of the twelve sites, all but one were located in Oklahoma.
Dow AFB, Maine (20 November 1946 – 1 December 1948) 14th Fighter Group; Dover AFB, Delaware (1 April 1946 – 1 December 1948) 320th AAF/Air Force Base Unit; Dyess AFB, Texas (15 October 1969 – 1 December 1974) 516th Tactical Airlift Wing (1969–1972) 463d Tactical Airlift Wing (1972–1974) Alexandria/England AFB, Louisiana
•7603d Air Base Squadron (9-1-1956), reasignado como 3974th Air Base Squadron desde el 1 de enero de 1957. •431st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (1958-1964) •3974th Air Base Group, (1958-1965) •874th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, (1959-1965) •7602d Support Wing, (1960) •7472d Combat Support Group, (1964-1970)
Inactivated in 1993; Dyess AFB became B-1B base Jun 1985. 97th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Eaker AFB, Arkansas; B-52G, 1960–1992 340th Bombardment Squadron Inactivated in 1992; Eaker AFB closed per BRAC; became 97th Airlift Wing at Altus AFB in 1992. 99th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Westover AFB, Massachusetts
Peterson AFB: C-130H: Active 53rd Airlift Squadron: Little Rock AFB: Black Jacks: C-130 Hercules: Active 54th Airlift Squadron: Scott AFB: C-40C: Active 55th Airlift Flight: Osan AB: C-12 Huron: Inactive 56th Airlift Squadron: Altus AFB: C-5 Galaxy: Inactive (now 56th Air Refueling Squadron) 57th Airlift Squadron: Altus AFB: C-141B Starlifter ...
Joint Base Lewis–McChord [22] 92nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 92nd Maintenance Group, 92nd Air Refueling Wing: Fairchild Air Force Base [23] 96th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 96th Maintenance Group, 96th Test Wing: Eglin Air Force Base [24] 97th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 97th Maintenance Group, 97th Air Mobility Wing: Altus Air ...