Tonopah Air Force Base | |
|---|---|
| Part of Fourth Air Force | |
| Nye County, near Tonopah, Nevada | |
 1944 Tonopah AAFld after a $3,000,000 project was completed for runways, new aprons, new water storage tanks, additional quarters and barracks, a new post exchange, supply buildings, crash stations, warehouses, operations buildings, a hangar, a school building, and range facilities. Most construction was complete by the beginning of November 1943.[1]
World War II newspaper: Desert Bomber[2] | |
| Coordinates | 38°03′19″N 117°05′19″W / 38.05528°N 117.08861°W[3] |
| Type | air base |
| Code | 2096585 (GNIS)[3] NV99799F603300 (FFID)[4] J09NV0969 (FUDS)[5] |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | 413th Army Air Force Base Unit[6] |
| Condition | municipal airport |
| footnotes | |
Tonopah Air Force Base (Tonopah Army Air Field in World War II) is a Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS)[4] in the USA that was a Tonopah Basin military installation until shortly after it was designated an Air Force Base in 1948. Two of the runways still in use are maintained by Nye County, Nevada; and World War II building foundations and three hangars of the base remain at the municipal Tonopah Airport.
- ^ Ballantyne, Kurt (May 1979). Central Nevada's Glorious Past (excerpt at TonopahNevada.com). Retrieved 2013-10-22.
- ^ "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ a b "Tonopah Army Air Field (2096585) 2096585". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
TableC-3was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Programmatic Work Plan: Table 1.1 Master Site List (Report). MMRP SI Project - SW Region. February 8, 2010. pp. 1–17.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
