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Dobbins Air Reserve Base or Dobbins ARB (IATA: MGE, ICAO: KMGE, FAA LID: MGE) is a United States Air Force reserve air base located in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Atlanta. Originally known as Dobbins Air Force Base, it was named in honor of Captain Charles M. Dobbins, a World War II C-47 pilot who died near ...
Marietta Air Force Base (later Dobbins Air Force Base), Georgia, 26 June 1949 – 1 April 1951; Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia, 14 June 1952; Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, 18 May 1955; Laurence G. Hanscom Field, Massachusetts, 16 November 1957; Dobbins Air Force Base (later Dobbins Air Reserve Base), Georgia, 1 July 1972 – present [2]
Then, in 2005, a parcel of 15.5 acres (0.063 km 2) was leased from the United States Air Force to the government of Cobb County for the creation of a 45,000 sq ft (4,200 m 2) museum. [ 3 ] [ b ] The museum, since renamed the Aviation Museum and Discovery Center , requested an $8 million grant from the state to establish an aviation middle ...
Lockheed C-130H-LM Hercules 81-0631 of the 700th Airlift Squadron prepares for approach and landing at Dobbins. 700th Airlift Squadron C-130s on the Dobbins Flightline. The 94th Operations Group (94 OG) is the flying component of the 94th Airlift Wing, assigned to the United States Air Force Reserve.
Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Plant 6 , known during World War II as the Bell Bomber Plant , is a government-owned, contractor-operated aerospace facility at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia , currently owned by the United States Air Force and operated by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics .
In April 1955, Congress appropriated more than $4 million to start building a new Naval Air Station at a more suitable location to allow longer runways. The site selected was a large military reservation jointly occupied by Dobbins Air Force Base and the Lockheed Company, between Marietta and Smyrna. The new air station was completed in April 1959.
Air Force Bases (PDF). Vol. I: Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-53-6. Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947-1977. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.
The unit was relieved from assignment to Military Airlift Command and assigned to Air Mobility Command on 1 June 1992. Activated the same day at Dobbins ARB, GA, with a change in assignment to the Air Force Reserve. It is under the peacetime command of Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command at Robins Air Force Base, GA.