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Eglin Air Force Base (IATA: VPS, ICAO: KVPS, FAA LID: VPS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida panhandle, located about three miles (5 km) southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County. The host unit at Eglin is the 96th Test Wing (formerly the 96th Air Base Wing).
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 1 October 1999; Hurlburt Field, Florida, 26 January 2009 – present [1] Aircraft. Curtiss C-46 Commando (1944–1945)
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A parachuted bundle soars out of the back of a C-145 Skytruck during an air-drop mission over the Eglin Air Force Base range. The installation is named for 1st Lt Robert L. Duke, who died in the crash of a Curtiss A-25A-20-CS Shrike, AAF Ser. No. 42-79823, near Spencer, Tennessee on 29 December 1943.
Federal Prison Camp, Eglin was a Federal Bureau of Prisons minimum security prison at Auxiliary Field 6, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. [ 1 ] Lacey Rose of Forbes wrote that it "was once considered so cushy that the term " Club Fed " was actually coined to describe it."
Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, 1 July 1977 – 30 September 1979; 1 July 1981 – 15 December 1982; Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Washington, 15 December 2004 – 27 September 2010 [5] [3] Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, c. 1 May 2024 – present [4]
Retired about 1990, now on display at Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin AFB. The 3246th Test Wing was a flight test component of the Air Proving Ground Center , later Armament Division , at Eglin Air Force Base , Florida, and was activated 1 July 1970 to provide weapon and countermeasures test duties.
A Baldwin 2-8-0, named the Eglin Queen on her cabsides, but apparently unnumbered, was operated into the late 1950s, and was retired by December 1959. Some believe that it was formerly Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad number 32, but this is chronologically impossible, as the LS&I #32 was operated on the Marquette & Huron Mountain tourist railroad in 1962 and was sold in 1967 to the Air ...