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Fairchild Air Force Base ( AFB ) is a United States Air Force base located approximately southwest of Spokane, Washington.
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* 1964 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard ; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
* October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14, 000 ' in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina / Chile border.
This established the presence of the Air Force Reserve on the base with their Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars.
The city's name was taken from its close proximity to Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane International Airport.
The host unit at Fairchild is the 92d Air Refueling Wing ( 92 ARW ) assigned to the Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force.
Fairchild AFB was established in 1942 as the Spokane Air Depot.
Over 5, 100 active duty Air Force, Air National Guard, and tenant organization military and civilian employees work on Fairchild, making the base the largest employer in Eastern Washington.
Since 1942, Fairchild Air Force Base / Station has been a key part of the United States ' defense strategy — from World War II repair depot, to Strategic Air Command bomber wing during the Cold War, to Air Mobility Command air refueling wing during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
Today, Fairchild ’ s aircraft and personnel make up the backbone of the Air Force ’ s tanker fleet on the west coast.
In November 1950, the base took its current name in memory of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, General Muir S. Fairchild, a native of Bellingham, Washington.
The unit would then be renamed the 141st Air Refueling Wing ( 141 ARW ) and move to Fairchild.
On January 23, 1987, following the inactivation of the 47th Air Division at Fairchild, the 92nd Bombardment Wing was reassigned to the 57th Air Division at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.
As Strategic Air Command finished 46 years of service to the nation, Fairchild bomber and tanker crews took top honors at Proud Shield ' 92.
December 7, 1993 marked the beginning of a significant change in the mission of Fairchild when the B-52s were transferred to another ACC base while the KC-135s, now assigned to the newly established Air Mobility Command ( AMC ) would remain.
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.
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A significant event at Fairchild occurred on June 20, 1994 when Dean Mellberg, an ex-Air Force member, entered the base hospital, shot and killed five people and wounded many others.
* Fairchild Air Force Base, 1 November 1950
These warheads were concentrated in two places: at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane and at the Kitsap Submarine Base across Puget Sound, on the Hood Canal.
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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.
Also large numbers of the Fairchild Type 24 ( C-61 ) were produced for the military ( principally the Fairchild Argus for the Royal Air Force ) and postwar, the civilian market ( see separate entry under Fairchild Argus ).
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* Blair Elementary School on Fairchild Air Force Base was renamed Anderson Elementary School in his honor.
Built in 1942 as the Spokane Air Depot, Fairchild Air Force Base is located just four miles ( 7 km ) to the west.
: Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington.
* June 24 – A U. S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base outside Spokane, Washington, when its pilot banks it too steeply during a go-around, killing the entire crew of four.
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The images acquired were relayed to the Earth and received by two command and readout stations established at retired Nike missile sites located near Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington and Loring Air Force Base, Maine.
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Entrance to Fairchild AFB
Fairchild AFB is named in honor of General Muir Stephen Fairchild ( 1894 – 1950 ).
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.
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