Mountain Home Air Force Base

Mountain Home Air Force Base
Near Mountain Home, Idaho in the U.S.
A F-15E Strike Eagle of the 391st Fighter Squadron based at Mountain Home AFB.
F-15E Strike Eagle of the 391st Fighter Squadron based at Mountain Home AFB.
Mountain Home AFB is located in North America
Mountain Home AFB
Mountain Home AFB
Location in North America
Mountain Home AFB is located in the United States
Mountain Home AFB
Mountain Home AFB
Location in the United States
Mountain Home AFB is located in Idaho
Mountain Home AFB
Mountain Home AFB
Location in Idaho
Coordinates43°02′N 115°52′W / 43.04°N 115.87°W / 43.04; -115.87
TypeU.S. Air Force Base
Site information
OwnerDepartment of Defense
OperatorU.S. Air Force
Singapore Air Force
Controlled byAir Combat Command (ACC)
ConditionOperational
Websitewww.mountainhome.af.mil
Site history
Built1942 (1942) – 1943
In use1943 – 1945
1948 – present
Garrison information
Current
commander
Colonel Michael C. Alfaro
Garrison366th Fighter Wing (Host)
Airfield information
IdentifiersIATA: MUO, ICAO: KMUO, FAA LID: MUO, WMO: 726815
Elevation913.1 m (2,996 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
12/30 4,117.8 m (13,510 ft) 
Porous European Mix
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Mountain Home Air Force Base (IATA: MUO, ICAO: KMUO, FAA LID: MUO) is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation in the western United States. Located in southwestern Idaho in Elmore County, the base is twelve miles (20 km) southwest of Mountain Home, which is forty miles (65 km) southeast of Boise via Interstate 84. The base is also used by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), which has a detachment of F-15SG combat aircraft on long term assignment to the base and a squadron composed of RSAF and USAF personnel.[2][3]

Constructed in the early 1940s during World War II as a training base for bombers, after the war it briefly had transports, then was a bomber and missile base. It became a fighter base in 1966. The host unit at Mountain Home has been the 366th Fighter Wing (366 FW) of the Air Combat Command (ACC), nicknamed the Gunfighters, since 1972. The base's primary mission is to provide combat airpower and support for worldwide contingency operations.

Part of the base is a census-designated place (CDP); the population was 3,238 at the 2010 census.[4]

  1. ^ "Airport Diagram – Mountain Home AFB (KMUO)" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Republic of Singapore air force unit activates".
  3. ^ Hamzah, Aqil (23 September 2023). "Large training area allows greater scope of integrated sense and strike operations for SAF". The Straits Times. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  4. ^ "U.S. Census website". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 22 March 2011.