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No. 17 Test and Evaluation Squadron is located in the United States at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where test and evaluation of the F-35B Lighting II is undertaken. Donnelly Lines, a permanent UK military facility at a United Arab Emirates (UAE) air base, was opened most recently, in 2024. [90]
Pages in category "Installations of the United States Air Force in California" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Map of the small U.S. military installations, ranges and training areas in the continental United States. This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world.
The base is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), an American Navy Lieutenant and a Brigadier General in the California Militia who was an explorer and frontiersman in California. Beale Air Force Base covers nearly 23,000 acres (93 km 2) of rolling hills in northern California. It is a large base in terms of land and has five gates ...
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
The Squadron stood up at Edwards AFB, California, on 12 April 2013 as a joint RAF/Royal Navy Test and Evaluation Squadron for the new Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning. [27] In January 2014, it became the first UK, and RAF, squadron to operate the F-35B Lightning, with BK-1 ( ZM135 ) being the first British aircraft.
Some installations are still called "Air Force Base", although operated by the US Space Force. [1] Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado [2] Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California [3] Patrick Space Force Base near Satellite Beach, Florida. [4] (Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is also located in the area, near Kennedy ...
Newcastle Air Force Base Wilmington: Delaware: 1958 Redesignated as New Castle Air National Guard Base: Norton Air Force Base: San Bernardino: California: 1994 Closed Olmsted Air Force Base: Harrisburg: Pennsylvania: 1969 Redesignated as Harrisburg Air National Guard Base: Onizuka Air Force Station: Sunnyvale: California: 2010 Closed Orlando ...