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Regular Air Force operations at McGhee Tyson Airport ended on January 8, 1958, and the 354 FIS was inactivated on that date. The 355 FIS remained until 1 July 1960 when it was inactivated along with the F-86 interceptor squadrons, and the base turned over to Tennessee Air National Guard control and renamed McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base ...
In 1968, McGhee Tyson built a new air cargo facility; a new passenger terminal opened in 1974, a few years after runway 18/36 closed. Four years later, the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority (MKAA) was established. In 1990, runway 5R/23L was rebuilt to 9,000 feet (2,700 m).
The I.G. Brown Training and Education Center is a detachment of the Air National Guard Readiness Center and is located at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base near Knoxville, Tennessee. The TEC conducts an average of 16 Enlisted Professional Military Education courses and 40 Professional Continuing Education sessions throughout the year.
As McGhee Tyson Airport rounds out a year of record growth in air service and passenger traffic, its leaders are looking ahead to 2024, when it will kick off a period of major construction that ...
McGhee Tyson had a record 2.8 million passengers in 2023 and expects over 3 million passengers this year. Drawing shows McGhee Tyson terminal expansion starting 2027 An expansion set to begin in ...
McGhee Tyson is a little farther from downtown Knoxville than Tennessee's other major airports are from their respective cities – Nashville wins at 7 miles, followed by Chattanooga at 9 miles ...
The 134th Air Refueling Wing (134 ARW) is a unit of the Tennessee Air National Guard, stationed at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Knoxville, Tennessee. If activated for federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command. The 134th Air Refueling Wing's KC-135 mission is to provide air refueling and ...
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