ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE

'Andrews Air Force Base' is a United States Air Force base near Washington, DC and the home base of the U.S. presidential aircraft, ''Air Force One''.
The host unit is the 316th Wing, composed of an operations group and a mission support group.
Andrews' current mission is that of emergency reaction and contingency response capabilities critical to national security, and support for Air and Space Expeditionary Forces.

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History

Location

Aircraft

References

External links

History

Originally known as 'Camp Springs Army Air Base', the base was renamed to 'Andrews Field' in 1945 after Frank Maxwell Andrews, a pivotal figure in the development of the United States Air Force, who had died in an airplane accident in 1943.
In 1962, Bolling Air Force Base ceased fixed-wing flight operations due to congestion at nearby National Airport, and these operations and assets were transferred to Andrews.

Location

Andrews Air Force Base is located a few miles southeast of Washington, D.C. in Prince George's County, Maryland near the town of Morningside. The base is also recognized as a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.8 mi² (17.7 km²). 6.8 mi² (17.7 km²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. There are two runways on the base; the western runway is 11,300 ft (3,440 m) in length, and the eastern runway is 11,700 ft (3,570 m) in length.

Aircraft

★ C-20B (89th Airlift Wing, Army Jet Detachment and Naval Air Facility)

★ C-21 (457th Airlift Squadron)

★ C-32A (89th Airlift Wing)

★ C-37A (89th Airlift Wing, Army Jet Detachment and Naval Air Facility)

★ C-38 (113th Wing, D.C. Air National Guard)

★ C-40B/C (89th Airlift Wing/113th Wing, D.C. Air National Guard)

★ C-130 Hercules (Naval Air Facility)

★ EA-6B Prowler (Naval Air Facility)

★ F-16 Fighting Falcon (113th Wing, D.C. Air National Guard)

★ KC-135R Stratotanker (459th Air Refueling Wing)

★ UC-12 Huron (Naval Air Facility and VMR, Det Andrews)

★ UC-35 (Army Jet Det, Naval Air Facility and VMR, Det Andrews)

★ UH-1N, (316th Wing)

★ VC-25, Air Force One (89th Airlift Wing)

References

External links

★ Andrews Air Force Base (official site)

★ Andrews Air Force Base at GlobalSecurity.org

★ Air Force District of Washington (AFDW)

★ aerial photograph of runway configuration [1]