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In late 1962, an AN/FPS-26 height-finder radar was installed. On 31 December 1962, Air Force moved the 635th RADS to Dauphin Island AFS, Alabama, however a detachment operated at Fort Lawton until March 1963. The Army continued operations at the site until the AADCP was inactivated 1 September 1974.
Inactivated in 1976; Beale AFB became a SAC Strategic Recon base for SR-71 and U-2 operations. 19th Bombardment Wing (Heavy) Homestead AFB, Florida (1962–1968) Robins AFB, Georgia (1968–1983) B-52H, 1962–1968; B-52G, 1968–1983 28th Bombardment Squadron (B-52G a/c from 781st BS, 7/68) Became 19th Air Refueling Wing in 1983
Palm Beach Air Force Base: West Palm Beach: Florida: 1962 Closed Parks Air Force Base: Pleasanton: California: 1959 Realigned to as the US Army: Patrick Air Force Base: Cocoa Beach: Florida: 2020 Realigned to the US Space Force as Patrick Space Force Base [5] Pease Air Force Base: Portsmouth: New Hampshire: 1991 Redesignated as Pease Air ...
Air Force Station (sometimes Air Station), Air Reserve Station or Air National Guard Station is used to name installations, typically but not exclusively without a flying mission, that are operated by a unit of at least squadron size, that does not otherwise meet the criteria of being a base. Air Force Auxiliary Airfield is used if the ...
English: KN-C21291 President John F. Kennedy (holding hat) speaks with Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (center), and Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton, upon his arrival aboard Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, following Easter vacation in Palm Beach, Florida.
September 14 – Over Edwards Air Force Base, California, a United States Air Force B-58A-10-CF Hustler reaches an altitude of 26,017.93 meters (85,360.7 feet) carrying a 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) payload. The flight sets two new world records, breaking the altitude record for a flight carrying a 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) payload and for a flight ...
The United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, completed in 1962, is the distinguishing feature of the Cadet Area at the United States Air Force Academy north of Colorado Springs. It was designed by Walter Netsch [2] of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago. Construction was accomplished by Robert E. McKee, Inc., of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Three B-52Bs of the 93rd Bomb Wing prepare to depart March Air Force Base for Castle Air Force Base, California, after their record-setting round-the-world flight in 1957. On 21 May 1956, a B-52B (52-13) dropped a Mk-15 nuclear bomb over the Bikini Atoll in a test code-named Cherokee .