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 Wright-Patterson AFB - Dayton, OH Posted by:  DougK
N 39° 49.383 W 084° 02.967
16S E 752527 N 4412284
This Air Force Base is named after the Wright brothers, who used the Huffman Prairie portion of what became Wright-Patterson as their testing ground, and Frank Stuart Patterson, son and nephew of the co-founders of National Cash Register.
Waymark Code: WMCX23
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 10/21/2011
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a joining of two separate airfields operating under the control of the US Air Force. In addition to being a base for the Air Force, WPAFB is the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command, the location of a major USAF Medical Center, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and the National Museum of the United States Air Force. WPAFB is also the home base of the 445th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command, the headquarters of the Aeronautical Systems Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Wikipedia tells the history of WPAFB:
The base is named after the Wright brothers, who used the Huffman Prairie portion of what became Wright-Patterson as their testing ground, and Frank Stuart Patterson, son and nephew of the co-founders of National Cash Register. Wishing to recognize the contributions of the Patterson family (owners of National Cash Register) the area of Wright Field east of Huffman Dam (including Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield Air Depot, and the Huffman Prairie) was renamed Patterson Field on July 6, 1931, in honor of Lt. Frank Stuart Patterson, who was killed in 1918 during a flight test of a new mechanism for synchronizing machine gun and propeller, when a tie rod broke during a dive from 15,000 feet, causing the wings to separate from his Airco DH.4.
In 1948, the nearby Wright Field and Patterson Field were merged under the name Wright-Patterson AFB. The former Wright Field became Area B of the combined installation, and the former Patterson Field became Area C. In 1951, the Air Force created a separate command for research and development called the Air Research and Development Command. The Wright Air Development Center was responsible for principal elements of flight testing, engineering and laboratories. Some of the test pilots working at the base, such as Neil Armstrong and Ed White, went on to become NASA astronauts.
Type: Military
ICAO Airport Code: KFFO
IATA Airport Code: FFO
FAA Identifier: FFO
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