Active U.S. Air Force Bases

1.United States Air Force Academy

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1954 · 18K acres — Undergraduate college commissioning officers for the Air and Space Forces; iconic 17-spire Cadet Chapel, Honor Code, ~1 million visitors a year.

2.Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Dayton, Ohio

est. 1917 · 8K acres — Headquarters of Air Force Materiel Command and birthplace of military flight; home to the National Museum of the US Air Force.

3.Joint Base San Antonio (Lackland/Randolph/Kelly)

San Antonio, Texas

est. 1917 · 50K acres — Largest single DoD installation; Lackland runs all Air Force enlisted basic training, Randolph hosts AETC headquarters and pilot training.

4.Offutt Air Force Base

Bellevue, Nebraska

est. 1948 · 4K acres — 55th Wing host; headquarters of US Strategic Command, the nation's nuclear command-and-control nerve center, and former Strategic Air Command HQ.

5.Nellis Air Force Base

Las Vegas, Nevada

est. 1941 · 11K acres — 57th Wing; 'Home of the Fighter Pilot,' running Red Flag exercises, the Weapons School and the Thunderbirds across the vast Nevada test range.

6.Eglin Air Force Base

Valparaiso, Florida

est. 1935 · 463K acres — 96th Test Wing; the Air Force's premier air-delivered weapons test center and one of the largest military bases on Earth.

7.Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards, California

est. 1933 · 301K acres — 412th Test Wing; legendary flight-test center where Yeager broke the sound barrier; develops virtually every Air Force aircraft, hosts NASA Armstrong.

8.MacDill Air Force Base

Tampa, Florida

est. 1939 · 6K acres — 6th Air Refueling Wing; headquarters of US Central Command and US Special Operations Command, directing operations across the Middle East.

9.Whiteman Air Force Base

Knob Noster, Missouri

est. 1955 · 6K acres — 509th Bomb Wing; the only base for the entire B-2 Spirit stealth bomber fleet, a pillar of US nuclear deterrence.

10.Barksdale Air Force Base

Bossier City, Louisiana

est. 1933 · 22K acres — 2nd Bomb Wing flying B-52H bombers; headquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command, overseeing the nuclear bomber and ICBM force.

11.Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (AF portion)

Honolulu, Hawaii

est. 1938 · 3K acres — 15th Wing; headquarters of Pacific Air Forces and the strategic airlift gateway for Indo-Pacific operations, attacked December 7, 1941.

12.Travis Air Force Base

Fairfield, California

est. 1943 · 6K acres — 60th Air Mobility Wing flying C-5, C-17 and KC-46; 'Gateway to the Pacific,' moving more cargo and passengers than any US military terminal.

13.Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (AF portion)

Anchorage, Alaska

est. 1940 · 64K acres — 3rd Wing flying F-22 Raptors; the key Indo-Pacific and homeland-defense air hub guarding the northern approaches to North America.

14.Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

Tucson, Arizona

est. 1925 · 11K acres — 355th Wing flying A-10s; world-famous for the 'Boneyard,' the largest aircraft storage and regeneration facility with 4,000-plus aircraft.

15.Vandenberg Space Force Base

Lompoc, California

est. 1957 · 99K acres — Space Launch Delta 30; the West Coast spaceport for polar-orbit launches and ICBM testing, supporting military, NASA and SpaceX missions.

16.Scott Air Force Base

O'Fallon, Illinois

est. 1917 · 3K acres — 375th Air Mobility Wing; headquarters of Air Mobility Command and US Transportation Command, coordinating global military airlift and logistics.

17.Minot Air Force Base

Minot, North Dakota

est. 1957 · 5K acres — 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing; the only base hosting two legs of the nuclear triad, B-52H bombers and Minuteman III ICBMs.

18.Tinker Air Force Base

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

est. 1941 · 6K acres — 72nd Air Base Wing; Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, a worldwide depot for B-52, KC-135, E-3 and B-1 maintenance and Oklahoma's largest employer.

19.Hill Air Force Base

Ogden, Utah

est. 1940 · 7K acres — 75th Air Base Wing; Ogden Air Logistics Complex sustaining F-35, F-16, A-10 and Minuteman III missiles, a top employer in Utah.

20.Robins Air Force Base

Warner Robins, Georgia

est. 1942 · 7K acres — 78th Air Base Wing; Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex and Air Force Reserve Command HQ, the single largest industrial complex in Georgia.

21.Luke Air Force Base

Glendale, Arizona

est. 1941 · 4K acres — 56th Fighter Wing; the Air Force's principal F-35 and F-16 fighter-pilot training base, the 'Home of the Fighter Pilot.'

22.Maxwell Air Force Base

Montgomery, Alabama

est. 1918 · 4K acres — Home of Air University, the Air Force's center for professional military education, on the site of the Wright brothers' flying school.

23.Beale Air Force Base

Marysville, California

est. 1951 · 23K acres — 9th Reconnaissance Wing; flies the U-2 Dragon Lady and RQ-4 Global Hawk for high-altitude strategic reconnaissance, former SR-71 home.

24.Peterson Space Force Base

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1942 · 1K acres — Space Base Delta 1; hosts NORAD, US Northern Command and US Space Command headquarters, central to North American aerospace defense.

25.Creech Air Force Base

Indian Springs, Nevada

est. 1942 · 2K acres — 432nd Wing; the Air Force's hub for MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft, flying armed surveillance and strike missions worldwide.

26.Patrick Space Force Base

Cocoa Beach, Florida

est. 1940 · 2K acres — Space Launch Delta 45; runs Cape Canaveral and the Eastern Range for DoD, NASA and commercial launches, plus the 920th Rescue Wing.

27.Malmstrom Air Force Base

Great Falls, Montana

est. 1942 · 4K acres — 341st Missile Wing; one of three bases operating the Minuteman III ICBM force, a leg of the nation's nuclear deterrent triad.

28.F.E. Warren Air Force Base

Cheyenne, Wyoming

est. 1867 · 3K acres — 90th Missile Wing and Twentieth Air Force HQ; operates Minuteman III ICBMs and is the oldest continuously active Air Force installation.

29.Kirtland Air Force Base

Albuquerque, New Mexico

est. 1942 · 52K acres — 377th Air Base Wing; nuclear-weapons research and storage hub, home to the Air Force Research Laboratory and 58th Special Operations Wing.

30.Ellsworth Air Force Base

Box Elder, South Dakota

est. 1942 · 5K acres — 28th Bomb Wing flying the B-1B Lancer; selected as the first operational base for the next-generation B-21 Raider stealth bomber.

31.Dyess Air Force Base

Abilene, Texas

est. 1942 · 6K acres — 7th Bomb Wing flying the B-1B Lancer plus the 317th Airlift Wing's C-130s; a premier bomber-training center near Abilene.

32.Buckley Space Force Base

Aurora, Colorado

est. 1938 · 3K acres — Space Delta 4; operates space-based missile-warning satellites (SBIRS/DSP) and hosts the Colorado Air National Guard's F-16s.

33.Eielson Air Force Base

Fairbanks, Alaska

est. 1948 · 63K acres — 354th Fighter Wing flying F-35s; Arctic combat-power and home of the Red Flag-Alaska training exercises southeast of Fairbanks.

34.Shaw Air Force Base

Sumter, South Carolina

est. 1941 · 12K acres — 20th Fighter Wing flying F-16CMs specialized in suppression of enemy air defenses; also hosts Air Forces Central and Ninth Air Force.

35.Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

Goldsboro, North Carolina

est. 1942 · 3K acres — 4th Fighter Wing flying F-15E Strike Eagles; the only Air Force base named for a naval officer, a key strike-fighter installation.

36.Mountain Home Air Force Base

Mountain Home, Idaho

est. 1943 · 7K acres — 366th Fighter Wing flying F-15E Strike Eagles; the 'Gunfighters' train with allied forces on expansive southern Idaho ranges.

37.Cannon Air Force Base

Clovis, New Mexico

est. 1942 · 4K acres — 27th Special Operations Wing; flies AC-130 gunships, MC-130s, CV-22 Ospreys and MQ-9s for Air Force Special Operations Command.

38.Holloman Air Force Base

Alamogordo, New Mexico

est. 1942 · 60K acres — 49th Wing; trains MQ-9 Reaper and F-16 crews and runs the world's longest and fastest high-speed test track.

39.Hurlburt Field

Mary Esther, Florida

est. 1942 · 7K acres — Headquarters of Air Force Special Operations Command and the 1st Special Operations Wing flying AC-130 gunships and MC-130s.

40.Tyndall Air Force Base

Panama City, Florida

est. 1941 · 9K acres — 325th Fighter Wing; rebuilt as the 'Installation of the Future' after Hurricane Michael, now a leading F-35A Raptor and air-dominance base.

41.McConnell Air Force Base

Wichita, Kansas

est. 1951 · 3K acres — 22nd Air Refueling Wing; a major KC-46 Pegasus and KC-135 air-refueling hub providing global reach from Wichita, Kansas.

42.Fairchild Air Force Base

Spokane, Washington

est. 1942 · 4K acres — 92nd Air Refueling Wing; the Air Force's largest KC-135 Stratotanker operating location and home of the SERE survival school.

43.Little Rock Air Force Base

Jacksonville, Arkansas

est. 1955 · 6K acres — 19th Airlift Wing; the Defense Department's primary C-130 Hercules training base, the world's largest tactical-airlift training center.

44.Moody Air Force Base

Valdosta, Georgia

est. 1941 · 11K acres — 23rd Wing, the 'Flying Tigers'; flies A-10C Thunderbolts and HH-60 rescue helicopters for close air support and combat rescue.

45.Dover Air Force Base

Dover, Delaware

est. 1941 · 4K acres — 436th Airlift Wing flying C-5M and C-17; the DoD's largest aerial port and home of the military's main mortuary at Dover.

46.Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (AF portion)

Wrightstown, New Jersey

est. 1948 · 42K acres — 87th Air Base Wing; the only tri-service joint base, a C-17 and KC-46 mobility hub and 'Gateway to the East.'

47.Joint Base Charleston (AF portion)

Charleston, South Carolina

est. 1942 · 21K acres — 437th Airlift Wing flying C-17 Globemaster IIIs; a major strategic-airlift hub combined with the Naval Weapons Station.

48.Grand Forks Air Force Base

Grand Forks, North Dakota

est. 1955 · 5K acres — 319th Reconnaissance Wing; flies RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drones, a former SAC bomber and Minuteman ICBM base.

49.Keesler Air Force Base

Biloxi, Mississippi

est. 1941 · 4K acres — 81st Training Wing; a large AETC technical-training center for electronics, cyber and weather, hosting Second Air Force headquarters.

50.Sheppard Air Force Base

Wichita Falls, Texas

est. 1941 · 6K acres — 82nd Training Wing; the most diversified AETC technical-training base and host of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program.

51.Altus Air Force Base

Altus, Oklahoma

est. 1943 · 4K acres — 97th Air Mobility Wing; the formal training base for C-17, KC-135 and KC-46 aircrews, producing mobility-force flight crews.

52.Columbus Air Force Base

Columbus, Mississippi

est. 1941 · 6K acres — 14th Flying Training Wing; an undergraduate pilot-training base flying T-6, T-38 and T-1 trainers under AETC.

53.Laughlin Air Force Base

Del Rio, Texas

est. 1952 · 4K acres — 47th Flying Training Wing; the Air Force's busiest pilot-training base by takeoffs and landings, near Del Rio, Texas.

54.Vance Air Force Base

Enid, Oklahoma

est. 1941 · 2K acres — 71st Flying Training Wing; trains Air Force, Navy, Marine and allied pilots on T-6, T-38 and T-1 trainers near Enid.

55.Cheyenne Mountain Complex

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1967 · 5 acres — NORAD/USNORTHCOM alternate command center dug into a granite mountain; 'America's Fortress,' hardened against nuclear attack and EMP.

56.Goodfellow Air Force Base

San Angelo, Texas

est. 1940 · 1K acres — 17th Training Wing; the joint-service center for cryptologic and intelligence training plus the DoD firefighter academy.

57.Schriever Space Force Base

Colorado Springs, Colorado

est. 1985 · 4K acres — Space Base Delta 1; the main GPS control point and command-and-control hub for over 170 DoD satellites near Colorado Springs.

58.Hanscom Air Force Base

Bedford, Massachusetts

est. 1942 · 846 acres — Air Force Life Cycle Management Center node; the service's center for developing and acquiring electronic and command-and-control systems.

59.Westover Air Reserve Base

Chicopee, Massachusetts

est. 1940 · 3K acres — 439th Airlift Wing flying C-5M Super Galaxy; the largest Air Force Reserve base in the United States.

60.Grissom Air Reserve Base

Peru, Indiana

est. 1942 · 2K acres — 434th Air Refueling Wing; the largest KC-135 Stratotanker wing in Air Force Reserve Command, named for astronaut Gus Grissom.

61.March Air Reserve Base

Riverside, California

est. 1918 · 2K acres — 452nd Air Mobility Wing; the largest air-mobility wing in Air Force Reserve Command, flying KC-135 and C-17 missions in Southern California.

62.Los Angeles Air Force Base

El Segundo, California

est. 1964 · 110 acres — Space Systems Command headquarters; the Space Force's research, development and acquisition center for military satellites including GPS.

63.Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (AF portion)

Washington, D.C.

est. 1918 · 905 acres — 11th Wing; hosts the Defense Intelligence Agency, the USAF Honor Guard and Band, and provides ceremonial support in the nation's capital.

64.Langley Air Force Base (Joint Base Langley-Eustis)

Hampton, Virginia