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Tinker Air Force Base is named in honor of Major General Clarence L. Tinker. [2] An Osage from Pawhuska, Oklahoma, he received his wings in 1921. [3] He was a graduate of Wentworth Military Academy who went on to become the first major general of Native American descent in U.S. Army history.
Ravenstein, Charles A. Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History 1984. ISBN 0-912799-12-9. Mueller, Robert, Air Force Bases Volume I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982, Office of Air Force History, 1989
Altus Air Force Base – Altus – KLTS ; 97th Air Mobility Wing [5] Kegelman Air Force Auxiliary Field – Jet – KCKA; 71st Flying Training Wing [6] Tinker Air Force Base – Oklahoma City/Midwest City – KTIK; 10th Flight Test Squadron; 38th Cyberspace Engineering Group; 72d Air Base Wing; 76th Maintenance Wing; 448th Supply Chain ...
The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (OC-ALC) Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma is one of the largest units in the Air Force Materiel Command.The complex performs programmed depot maintenance on the C/KC-135, B-1B, B-52 and E-3 aircraft; expanded phase maintenance on the Navy E-6 aircraft; and maintenance, repair and overhaul of F100, F101, F108, F110, F117, F118, F119, F135, and TF33 engines ...
It is assigned to the Tenth Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, and is stationed at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The group's mission is to provide theater and Air Force commanders with trained aircrews and maintenance personnel and systems for airborne surveillance, warning and control of U.S. and allied military aircraft.
However, there is at least one Wichita store left that does sell some surplus supplies, even though they are only a small part of its inventory. That’s the Yard, which is downtown at 725 E. Central.
The city was developed in response to talk of an air field being located nearby and named for the Tinker Air Force Base's original designation as the Midwest Air Depot. [6] The city suffered damage during two tornadoes, the first in May 1999 and the second on May 8, 2003. [7] [8]
Address: 3500 Ross Parkway, near Pawnee and Oliver. Enrollment: 500 — 52% Hispanic, 18% white, 17% Black. Opened: 1958. ... Planeview was annexed into the city of Wichita in 1955, and in 1957 ...