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Four months later, on 10 February 1948, Muroc AAF was re-designated Muroc Air Force Base with the establishment of the United States Air Force as a separate military service. Units attached or assigned to the base at the time were the 4144th Army Air Force Base Unit, the 3208th Strategic Bomb Test Squadron along with communications and weather ...
It is assigned to the 412th Operations Group at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The 445th is part of the Air Force Test Center . Originally constituted in 1943 as the 445th Fighter Squadron , it was involved in the early testing of the first U.S. jets, the Bell P-59 Airacomet and later the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star .
The 4952nd moved to Edwards Air Force Base, California along with its parent 4950th Test Wing. The 452nd squadron was redesignated the 452nd Test Squadron and reactivated in October 1993 at Edwards Air Force Base, [ 1 ] when it assumed the personnel, mission and ARIA aircraft of the 4952d Test Squadron that was simultaneously inactivated.
On 1 March 1978, the 6510th Test Wing was established and activated at Edwards Air Force Base, California as part of a re-organization of units at Edwards by Air Force Systems Command. The 6510th assumed the flying mission of the Air Force Flight Test Center , which was established in June 1951.
Edwards Air Force Base, California, 10 March 1989 – present [1] Aircraft. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, 1942–1945 [21] Boeing B-47 Stratojet, 1959–1961 [21]
Otis Air Force Base [1] Westover Air Force Base [114] Centers. Air Force Electronic Systems Center [115] Facilities. Air Force Special Projects Production Facility [116] Post Attack Command and Control System Facility, Hadley [117] Hospitals. 551st United States Air Force Hospital (Otis AFB) [1] Westover Air Force Base Hospital [118] Laboratories
The squadron was reactivated at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in 2006. Its mission is flight testing aircraft, primarily the F-35 Lightning II. [1] On 22 January 2019, a Boeing KC-46 Pegasus from the 418th Flight Test Squadron made connection with an F-35A from the 461st Flight Test Squadron.
Edwards Air Force Base — in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert, in Southern California. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories ...