Entrance to Fairchild AFB

Fairchild Air Force Base ( AFB ) is a United States Air Force base located approximately southwest of Spokane, Washington.

Fairchild AFB was established in 1942 as the Spokane Air Depot.

On July 1, 1994, the 92d Bomb Wing was re-designated the 92d Air Refueling Wing ( 92 ARW ), and Fairchild AFB was transferred from ACC to Air Mobility Command ( AMC ) in a ceremony marking the creation of the largest air refueling wing in the Air Force.

In 1995 aircraft from Fairchild flew to Travis AFB, California in support of its first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) mission, transporting Russian inspectors to sites in the Western U. S. The wing has flown START missions in the U. S. every year since.

Mellberg had been discharged from Cannon AFB, NM, for the same psychological reason that psychologists Maj. Thomas Brigham and Captain Alan London at Fairchild AFB found.

He traveled to the town of Airway Heights just outside of Fairchild AFB where he purchased weapons and planned his revenge on the psychologists that had caused his ousting.

At Fairchild AFB, support facilities, including a liquid oxygen plant, were completed by January 1961.

Operational readiness training, which previously had been conducted only at Vandenberg AFB, California, began at Fairchild during the following month.

Location of Fairchild AFB, Washington

: 141st Air Refueling Wing, Fairchild AFB

: 92d Air Refueling Wing ( KC-135 ) at Fairchild AFB, Washington

However, KC-10 Extender and most KC-135 Stratotanker air refueling aircraft initially assigned to Air Combat Command were transferred to AMC, along with Grand Forks AFB, McConnell AFB and Fairchild AFB.

** 336th Training Group, Fairchild AFB, WA

** 325th, 326th, 327th Bombardment Squadrons ( 92d Bombardment Group ) ( July-October 1950 ) Deployed squadrons from Spokane AAFld ( later, Fairchild AFB ), Washington.

** 98th Bombardment Wing ( 343d, 344th, 345th Bomb Squadrons ) ( August 1950-July 1954 ) Group, then Wing deployed from Spokane AAFld ( later, Fairchild AFB ), Washington.

Fairchild C-119C Flying Boxcar: Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar Serial Number: 49-0157 Markings: 907th Troop Carrier Squadron, Clinton County AFB, Ohio, 1963.

Fairchild C-82A Packet: Fairchild C-82 Packet Serial Number: 44-23006 Registration: N6997C Markings: 7th Geodic Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Group, Forbes AFB, Kansas, 1949.

The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $ 169. 95.

That is, although Fairchild assembles hundreds of quotations from ethnographers, philosophers, novelists, poets, and playwrights from the 17th century to the 19th century, showing a rich variety of ways in which writers romanticized and idealized those who Europeans considered " savages ", almost none of them explicitly refer to something called the " Noble Savage ".

Acorn is sometimes referred to as the " British Apple " and has been compared to Fairchild Semiconductor for being a catalyst for start-ups.

It was inspired by, and is somewhat similar to, the Fairchild F8 microprocessor.

The county is the economic and industrial center of the state, having the resources of the Port of Portland, the Maine Mall, and having corporate headquarters of major companies such as Fairchild Semiconductor, IDEXX Laboratories, Unum, and TD Bank.

The first building erected in what is now the center of the village was built around 1798 by Alpheus Fairchild, who moved west from Connecticut.

The city is served by William R. Fairchild International Airport, and ferry service is provided across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on the M / V Coho or Victoria Express.

The host unit at Fairchild is the 92d Air Refueling Wing ( 92 ARW ) assigned to the Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force.

It is named in honor of General Muir S. Fairchild ( 1894 – 1950 ).

Fairchild is home to a wide variety of units and missions.

Training is conducted year-round at Fairchild and at the School ’ s field location in the Colville National Forest, about 60 miles north of Fairchild.

Fairchild Air Force Base is located just north of town.

The largest military facility and employer in the area is Fairchild Air Force Base near Airway Heights, where the 92d Air Refueling Wing is stationed.

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California.

The partial 1930 black and white calendar from Kingsbury and Fairchild ( 1935 ) displayed here does not conform to any of these because its red day is the fifth day of the week, which even disagrees with their own statement that red was the third day of the week.

It is commonly noted that the first venture-backed startup is Fairchild Semiconductor ( which produced the first commercially practicable integrated circuit ), funded in 1959 by what would later become Venrock Associates.

Byrd's Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, " Stars And Stripes " is on display at the Virginia Aviation Museum located on the north side of the airport, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C.

Originally named " Fairchild City ," or just " The City ," after Alpheus Fairchild, who bought most of today's village in 1798 from John A. DeWitt, Fairchild had a dwelling erected on part of the site where the George and John R. Hunt Memorial Building stands today.

He was also the voices of King Friday XIII and Queen Sara Saturday ( named after his wife ), rulers of the neighborhood, as well as X the Owl, Henrietta Pussycat, Daniel Striped Tiger, Lady Elaine Fairchild, and Larry Horse.

Porter was named after Fairchild Porter, who settled in the area around 1860.

In 1928, Admiral Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships, and three airplanes: Byrd's Flagship was The City of New York ( a Norwegian sealing ship previously named Samson that had come into fame as a ship in the vicinity of Titanic when the latter was sinking ); a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett ( named after the recently deceased pilot of Byrd's previous expeditions ); a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named " Stars And Stripes " ( now displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum ); and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia ( Byrd's birth state ).

Together, they are the crew of Higher for Hire's only aircraft, a modified Conwing L-16 ( a fictitious combination of a Fairchild C-82 transport and a Grumman HU-16 amphibian ), named the Sea Duck.

The Arboretum is named for Albert Fairchild Holden, a mining engineer and executive, who had considered making Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum his beneficiary.

The Fairchild C-123 Provider started replacing the C-119 in 1958, and in 1963, the first C-130 Hercules arrived, appropriately named “ The North Carolina .”

* The VF-11 Thunderbolt was named after the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, a World War II American fighter, and the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, a close air-support attack aircraft.

They named it " The Kampong ", after similar family compounds in Java, Indonesia, where Fairchild had spent so many happy days collecting plants.

In 1938, he was honored by having the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables named after him.

It was named after his good friend David Fairchild ( 1869 – 1954 ), one of the great plant explorers.

He purchased the site, named it after Dr. Fairchild, and later deeded it in large part to Miami-Dade County.

The Arboretum is named for Albert Fairchild Holden, a mining engineer and executive, who had considered making Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum his beneficiary.

The Barton & Durstine agency ( founded by Bruce Fairchild Barton and William H. Johns ) opened in January 1919, and when Alex Osborn joined the company, the company was named Barton, Durstine, and Osborn.

In the 1890s, Lathrop met a young biologist named David Fairchild who he persuaded to become a plant explorer.

In 1978, to honor his efforts, the Universidad de Panamá named its Invertebrate Museum after Fairchild.