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Eglin Air Force Base evolved from the 1933 creation of the Valparaiso Airport, when an arrowhead-shaped parcel of 137 acres (55 ha) was cleared for use as an airdrome. [ 4 ] In 1931, personnel of the Air Corps Tactical School , newly relocated to Maxwell Field , Alabama, sought a location for a bombing and gunnery range.
The 96th Test Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force Test Center of Air Force Materiel Command at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.The wing was activated at Eglin in 1994 as the 96th Air Base Wing, the headquarters for all support units on Eglin, the largest installation in the Air Force.
The McKinley Climatic Laboratory is both an active laboratory and a historic site located in Building 440 on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The laboratory is part of the 96th Test Wing. In addition to Air Force testing, it can be used by other US government agencies and private industry. [2]
Range operations rely on land-based radar and electro-optical time-space-position-information systems to monitor and transfer test data to the Central Control Facility on Eglin AFB. These instrumentation systems, located on Santa Rosa Island and other locations provide coverage for test and evaluation activities in the Gulf of Mexico .
USAF Flight Test Center USAF Test Pilot School USAF Rocket Propulsion Laboratory 412th Test Wing. Eglin AFB, Florida, 1 December 1957 – 1 July 1992; USAF Armament Development Test Center 3246th Test Wing. Griffiss AFB, New York, 2 April 1951 – 1 July 1954; Rome Air Development Center. Vandenberg AFB, California, 21 June 1957 – 1 January 1958
Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field #2 is named Pierce Field for Lt Col George E. Pierce, USAAF, killed 19 January 1942 while piloting B-25C-1 Mitchell, AAF Ser. No. 41-13118, which crashed into the Gulf of Mexico 2 miles (3.2 km) S of Destin, Florida. [1] Joe Baugher cites date of 19 October 1942 for loss. [2] Pierce Field is also known as Site C-3.
Strike Fighter Squadron 101 (VFA-101), also known as the "Grim Reapers", was a United States Navy Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) based at Eglin AFB, Florida.After the West Coast FRS for the F-14 Tomcat, VF-124, was disestablished in the mid-1990s, VF-101 became the sole F-14 FRS.
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]