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March Field Air Museum is located adjacent to but off the grounds of March ARB and displays in its aircraft collection examples bombers, fighters, cargo, refueling and reconnaissance aircraft, many of which served at March Field, March AFB and/or March ARB.
The March Field Air Museum is an aviation museum near Moreno Valley and Riverside, California, located at March Air Reserve Base. History
Moreno Valley/March Field is a train station in unincorporated Riverside County, California, United States, near Moreno Valley and the March Air Reserve Base, after which the station is named. [3] [4] It opened on June 6, 2016, as part of the extension of the 91/Perris Valley Line of the Metrolink commuter rail system. [5] [6]
One of the four original numbered air forces, Fourth Air Force was activated as the Southwest Air District of the GHQ Air Force on 18 December 1940, at March Field, California. It was redesignated Fourth Air Force on 26 March 1941 with a mission for the defense of the Southwest and Lower Midwest regions of the United States.
Activated at March Field, California in early 1941 as part of the prewar mobilization of the Army Air Corps. Equipped with B-18 Bolos and Lockheed Hudsons. Engaged in coastal patrols over Southern California, later over the San Francisco area. Re-equipped with B-25 Medium bombers, deployed to Seventh Air Force in Hawaii during the late summer ...
This new museum was dedicated in October 1997, at the expanding March Field Air Museum complex at the former March Air Force Base near Riverside, California, where the first test flight of the P-38 took place. The March Field Museum chronicles the history of U.S. military aviation since 1917.
The squadron was originally created as the 25th Pursuit Squadron and activated at Hamilton Field, California on 15 January 1941. By March it was assigned to the 51st Pursuit Group at March Field, California. In July the squadron received Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft.
The group was first activated in 1940 at March Field, California as the 32nd Air Base Group with an air base squadron and two materiel squadrons assigned. In June 1942, along with other air base groups, its air base squadron was reassigned and it was converted into the 32nd Service Group, a support unit designed to provide support for two combat groups.