HILL AIR FORCE BASE

'Hill Air Force Base' is an installation of the United States Air Force operating under the auspices of the Air Force Materiel Command, formerly known as the Air Force Logistics Command. It is located in northern Utah, south of the city of Ogden, adjacent to the cities of Clearfield and Roy and approximately 29 miles north of Salt Lake City. Hill AFB is currently the largest employer in the state of Utah . In addition to its mission as a logistics-materiel base, Hill also serves as host to the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, currently composed mostly of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. The installation is projected to serve as a host installation for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, which is currently in production.

Contents

History

Units Present

Utah Test and Training Range

External links

History

Originally authorized in 1939 as the 'Ogden Air Depot', it was soon named 'Hill Field' after Major Ployer Peter Hill, who had died testing a Boeing Model 299 aircraft.
Hill Field officially opened on 7 November 1940, and soon became a key maintenance and supply base of World War II, peaking at 22,000 military and civilian workers in 1943.
In 1944 Hill Field became responsible for the long-term storage of surplus aircraft and support equipment. B-24, P-40, P-47, B-29, and many other types of aircraft were eventually prepared and stored at the base.
Hill Field became Hill Air Force Base on 5 February 1948, following the separation of the Air Force from the United States Army Air Corps as a result of the National Security Act of 1947.
During the Korean War Hill AFB was assigned a major share of the Air Materiel Command logistical effort to support the war. Hill personnel quickly removed needed aircraft from storage, renovated, and added them to the active Air Force inventory.
Also in the 1950s, Hill began maintenance support of various jet aircraft (mainly F-4 Phantoms during the Vietnam War, F-16s, A-10s and C-130s), missile systems, and rockets. It continues to do so to this day.
The base also houses the 30-acre Hill Aerospace Museum, which contains over 80 historical aircraft.

Units Present

★ Ogden Air Logistics Center

★ 75th Air Base Wing

★ 84th Combat Sustainment Wing

★ 309th Maintenance Wing

★ 388th Fighter Wing

★ 419th Fighter Wing

★ 508th Aircraft Sustainment Wing

★ 526th ICBM Systems Wing

★ 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron

Utah Test and Training Range

The Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) is one of the only live-fire air force training ranges in the United States. It is located in far-western Utah, near the Nevada border, and lies both north and south of Interstate 80 (with several miles of separation on each side of the interstate highway). The portion of the training range that lies north of Interstate 80 is also west of the Great Salt Lake. The Utah Test and Training Range lies in Tooele County and is owned by the state of Utah, but the airspace and training is scheduled by Hill AFB.
On September 8, 2004, the Genesis spacecraft crashlanded in the nearby Dugway Proving Ground.

External links

★ Hill AFB website

★ Global Security site