* Air Force Headquarters ( Chef: Cdt.

The Lithuanian Armed Forces consist of the Lithuanian Land Force, Lithuanian Air Force, Lithuanian Naval Force, Lithuanian Special Operations Force and other units: Logistics Command, Training and Doctrine Command, Headquarters Battalion, Military Police.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

It then remained largely unchanged for 16 years until in 1995 when Defence Headquarters ( DHQ ) was established and the Sierra Leone Air Wing ( SLAW ) formed.

Wiesbaden was host to the Headquarters, U. S. Air Forces, Europe based at the former Lindsey Air Station from 1953 to 1973.

* Headquarters, Twelfth Air Force

It is the home of Shaw AFB, part of the 20th Fighter Wing & Headquarters to the 9th Air Force and the Third Army as of August 2011.

General USAF Ret., former Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters Allied Air Forces

Headquarters, United States Air Force, publishes current USAF doctrine.

The lead agency for developing Air Force doctrine is Headquarters, Air Force Doctrine Center ; the Air Staff International Standardization Office works on multinational standardization, such as NATO Standardization Agreements ( STANAGs ), and agreements between the American, British, Canadian, and Australian Armies and Navies ( ABCA ) that affect the Air Force.

The wing reports to the USAF Air Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, a Direct Reporting Unit ( DRU ) to Headquarters, Air Combat Command ( ACC ).

In December 1955, the Air Munitions Development Laboratory was reassigned from the Wright Air Development Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to the Air Force Armament Center at Eglin by Headquarters Air Research and Development Command.

* Pfau, Richard A., and Greenhalgh Jr., William H., " The Air Force in Southeast Asia: The B-57G Tropic Moon III 1967 – 1972 ", Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1978

It is the home to the Air Force Reserve Command's 4th Air Force ( 4 AF ) Headquarters and the 452d Air Mobility Wing ( 452 AMW ), the largest air mobility wing of the 4th Air Force.

Further deterioration occurred as a result of the Sept. 1, 1983 Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island carrying 269 people including a sitting US congressman, Larry McDonald, and over Reagan's stationing of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe.

In April 2006, Margaret Witt, a major in the United States Air Force who was being investigated for homosexuality filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the grounds that DADT violates substantive due process, the Equal Protection Clause, and procedural due process.

* Western Express Air, a regional airline in Bullhead City, Arizona

The bombing of Dresden by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force between 13 and 15 February 1945 remains a controversial Allied action of the Western European theatre of war.

In the early morning hours of January 16, 1942, Lombard, her mother, and Winkler boarded a Transcontinental and Western Air DC-3 airplane to return to California.

The GCVTC released its final report in 1996 and initiated the Western Regional Air Partnership ( WRAP ), a partnership of state, tribal and federal agencies to help coordinate implementation of the Commission ’ s recommendations.

Western practitioners typically use the Classical elements of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire.

The ' symbolic ' war against the Western Allies, however, turned into a disaster for the citizens of Sofia as the city was heavily bombarded by the US and the British Royal Air Force in 1943 and 1944.

It is hub for the two major Norwegian airlines Scandinavian Airlines System and Norwegian Air Shuttle, and for regional aircraft from Western Norway.

In 1979, a Jamaican, Maria Ziadie-Haddad, became one of the first women in the Western Hemisphere to become a commercial jet airline pilot when she was hired by Air Jamaica 1968 Ltd as a B727 Second Officer.

The squadron produces forecasts for the Western United States and is part of the 1st Weather Group ( 1 WXG ) headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.

Because of the Great Depression, Frye and his associates sold the airline to Western Air Express in March 1930.

Concomitant with the sale, Frye joined Western Air Express on the Board of Directors and as Chief of Operations.

Later in 1930, Western Air Express merged with Transcontinental Air Transport in 1930 to form T & WA ( TWA ).

* Western Air Defense Force ( Air Defense Command )

In 1988 Phil Bakes, the president of Eastern Air Lines, announced plans to lay off 4, 000 employees and eliminate and reduce service to airports in the Western United States ; he said that the airline was going " back to our roots " in the East Coast of the United States.

The city is also home to the International World Jet Ski Final Races, multiple professional fishing tournaments, custom boat regattas, the Western Winter Blast pyrotechnics convention, Havasu 95 Speedway, the Chilln-n-Swilln Beer Festival annual charity event, the Havasu Triathlon, the Havasu Half Marathon and the Havasu Island Hot Air Balloon Fest & Fair.

The Air Force renamed this geographical area the Air Force Western Test Range.

Post Office Department officials, realizing the need for faster mail service, had begun drawing up a contract to award to either the Plant System ( then known as the Savannah, Florida and Western ) or the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, both of which operated south of the ACL termination point of Charleston, South Carolina.

The 15th Air Base Squadron inactivated at Wheeler on 31 October 1991, one day before the U. S. Army assumed operational control of the installation in accordance with a memorandum of understanding signed by the Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces, and the Commander, US Army Western Command.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

HARM was used extensively by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of 1991.

The USAF F-15 Eagle had responsibility for overland Combat Air Patrol ( CAP ) duties in Desert Storm in 1991, primarily because of the onboard F-15 IFF capabilities.

Although the U. S. Air Force sent fighters such as the F-16 to theater in Desert Shield, they had to carry bombs with them as no stores were in place for sustained operations whereas the carriers arrived on scene with full magazines and had support ships to allow them to conduct strikes indefinitely.

Low-intensity storms have hit the island, including in 1901, which blew over 1, 500 coconut trees, on September 16, 1944 which caused the wreck of a Royal Air Force PBY Catalina, September 1990 which demolished the tent city then being constructed for USAF bomber crews during Operation Desert Storm, and on July 22, 2007 when winds exceeded and over of rain fell in 24 hours.

The Allied Desert Air Force ( DAF ) was concentrating fiercely on his fragile and elongated supply routes while British mobile columns moving west and striking from the south were causing havoc in the Axis rear echelons.

* 1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

Arafat narrowly escaped death again on 7 April 1992, when an Air Bissau aircraft he was a passenger on crash-landed in the Libyan Desert during a sandstorm.

* Long Range Desert Group and the Special Air Service in Africa and later in Europe.

* Desert Air Force, an RAF formation operating in North Africa during World War II

Many end-of-service airliners end up in the Mojave Desert, at the Mojave Air and Space Port ( also known as " The Boneyard ").

During World War II, various British and Commonwealth units, including the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ), the No. 1 Demolition Squadron or ' PPA ' ( Popski's Private Army ), and the Special Air Service ( SAS ) were noted for their exploits in the deserts of Egypt, Libya and Chad using unarmored motor vehicles, often fitted with machine guns and cannons of various types.

Near Mezzouna, his vehicle was part of a column strafed by Kittyhawk ( P-40 ) fighter bombers of the Desert Air Force – most likely from No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force – and he received severe, multiple wounds.

During this period, the 602nd Tactical Air Control Wing deployed Airborne Forward Air Controllers in their OA-10 aircraft to Operation Desert Storm, providing nearly 100 percent of this capability to the war.

* Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Newspaper, Desert Lightning News

Other golf resorts are the Tamarisk, Mission Hills, the Springs, Sunrise, KSL Resorts ' Rancho Las Palmas hotel ( opened in 1979 to replace the Desert Air golf and private airport from 1954 – 1978 ), Rancho Mirage, Morningside, Mission Hills North Course, Westin Hotels Mission Hills resort, and Tuscania by Sunrise Company opened in 2006.

The Airline Division provided aircraft for commuter airlines in the United States including Air New Orleans, Desert Sun in Long Beach, Shasta Air and Sun West Airlines ; as well as internationally for Vickers for corporate transport use in the United Kingdom, Cameroon's Avia Services and to Piper's distributor in Colombia, Aero Leaver.