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Ernest Harmon Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. The base was built by the United States Army Air Forces in 1941 under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement with the United Kingdom .
List of military installations in Newfoundland & Labrador Name Location Operator Branch Date Coordinates Ref; ... Ernest Harmon Air Force Base: Stephenville: USA
Harmon Air Force Base was closed in 1949 due to budget constraints [1] and was merged with the neighboring Naval Air Station Agana. [ citation needed ] Today, the technical facilities are an industrial area to the northeast of the Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport , which served as the main airfield for both Harmon Air Force Base and ...
Additional interceptor squadrons were established at Goose AFB in Labrador and Ernest Harmon AFB in Newfoundland and were composed of F-94s and F-89s. Also, there were numerous deployments of fighter-interceptor squadrons from the Tactical Air Command and Air Defense Command to NEAC bases, along with Strategic Air Command tankers and bombers ...
The 4081st Strategic Wing was a non-flying ground service support element for Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, Newfoundland, Canada from April 1957 until June 1966. When activated, the wing assumed the mission, manpower, equipment, weapons, and facilities of the 6605th Air Base Wing, which had been established on 1 ...
Redesignated as Webb Air Force Base: Biggs Air Force Base: El Paso: Texas: 1966 Realigned to the US Army as Biggs Army Airfield in 1973 Blytheville Air Force Base: Blytheville: Arkansas: 1988 Redesignated as Eaker Air Force Base: Bolling Air Force Base: Southeast: Washington, D.C. 2010 Realigned as part of Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling [3 ...
The squadron transferred in 1957 to Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, swapping stations with the 61st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, which moved to Truax from Harmon. [ 1 ] [ 9 ] Its mission became air defense of the Newfoundland Straits and the Great Circle polar route from the Soviet Union over Greenland to Canada and the United States.
Stephenville Dymond International Airport [4] (IATA: YJT, ICAO: CYJT) is an airport located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south southeast of Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was built by the United States Army Air Forces and operated as Ernest Harmon Air Force Base from 1941 to 1966.