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Griffiss Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force installation in the northeastern United States, located in Central New York state at Rome, about fifteen miles (25 km) northwest of Utica. Missions included fighter interceptors , electronic research, installation, and support activities, aerial refueling , and bombers .
Griffiss International Airport (IATA: RME, ICAO: KRME, FAA LID: RME) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) east of the central business district of Rome, a city in Oneida County, New York, United States. This airport is publicly owned by County of Oneida. [1] It is located on the former site of Griffiss Air Force Base, which
134th Fighter Squadron (Detachment 1) – F-16C/D (Langley Air Force Base, Virginia) Virginia Air National Guard. 192nd Fighter Wing. 149th Fighter Squadron – F-22A (Langley Air Force Base) Wisconsin Air National Guard. 115th Fighter Wing. 176th Fighter Squadron "Badgers" – F-16C/D (Truax Field Air National Guard Base)
Rome Free Academy (commonly abbreviated as RFA) is a public high school in Rome, New York, United States.It is a part of the Rome City School District.. The school moved to the former site of Griffiss Air Force Base in September 2002, [9] having previously been located at 500 Turin St.
Renamed Griffiss Air Force Base on 23 Jan 1948 [5], the World War II installation's buildings were used as post-war offices and laboratories, e.g., for testing units that arrived beginning in 1948 from Pennsylvania's Middletown Air Depot [4] (Griffiss had the "2 Msl Trpt Sq" 26 Jan 48-3 Sep 48.) [5]
The city is located at New York's geographic center, adjacent to the western border of Herkimer County, and at the southwestern base of the Adirondack Mountains. [98] Utica and its suburbs are bound by the Allegheny Plateau in the south and the Adirondack Mountains in the north, [ 99 ] and the city is 456 ft (139 m) above sea level; this region ...
This is a list of airports in New York (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Oneida County closed the airport in January 2007 and transferred operations to Griffiss International Airport, (formerly Griffiss Air Force Base) about five miles (8.0 km) to the north in Rome, New York. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport boarded 2,122 passengers in calendar year 2004 and 1,951 in 2005. [2]