Aguadilla (Rafael Hernandez) International and Point Borinquen Coast Guard Air Station, Puerto Rico (originally all just Ramey AFB; essentially the military handed over most of what was the base to civilians but retained a “rump” post)
Almost every state in the US has a major airport that’s also an ANG unit’s home field, but not always as a proper “base”, distinct from the airport but sharing the airspace/runways (As, for instance, SJU International and Muniz ANGB, in San Juan). Some go the other way: when I lived in Baltimore, the MDANG was based at Martin State Airport rather than at BWI.
Ellington airfield (Houston, Texas) was Ellington AFB but it has become “multi use”, it is used by NASA, USAF, ANG, CONTINENTAL, UPS and I am sure many others.
Well, technically this isn’t quite sharing, but the Hahn Air Base in Germany, is now the Hahn Airport used by Ryan Air and the German charter airline LTU.
Wow, so many “me too” and “here too” posts that no one seems to have read the original question, at least how I interpret it. I see it as, “how many USAF bases are co-located with civil/commercial airfields,” not, “how many civil airfields does some branch of the military also use?”
That being said, I didn’t know there were any co-located civil/USAF bases.
Stewart International (SWF) in Newburgh, NY has an Air National Guard Base attached to it. They are having an airshow with the Blue Angels there this summer!
One of the runways is nearly 12,000 feet long, which means you can land almost anything there. The Guard has C-130’s and C-5’s stationed there. The C-5’s are incredibly huge.
I’m told that SWF is an alternate space shuttle landing site. I hope to hell I’m flying my Cessna there the day they pull that stunt!
Tower: “Cessna 4357Tango, make left traffic runway 27. You are number two behind Shuttle Endeavor.”
Well, I think Frankfurt International (FRA) and the Rhein-Main Air Base would qualify (see my earlier post), since the Air Base is actually on the real estate owned by the Airport. In fact, a few years ago the Air Base ‘gave back’ some of their real estate and this was used to build the ‘Cargo City South’. Also, during the gulf war, there were more C-135s and C-5s starting from FRA at night than there were civil flights. Nothing wakes you up in the middle of the night like a fully loaded C-5 rumbling about 500 meters over your rooftop (I lived about 20 miles south of FRA, smack-dab in middle of the flight path, at the time). A fully loaded C-5 climbs slooooooooowwwwwwwwly, so it felt like they were about to land in my bedroom. :eek:
Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee has two Air Force Bases on it (located at opposite ends). It has the 128th and the 440th (one of which specilizes in mid air refueling).
Capital Airport in Springfield, IL shares space with the Illinois Air National Guard 183rd fighter division (the Flyin’ Illini :rolleyes: ) (the home base of Majors Schmidt and Umbach, the men involved in the friendly-fire bombing that killed four Canadians in Afghanistan).
BTW, when I was flying in to Capital a couple of months ago on my way home from Walt Disney World, our plane was delayed while Air Force One was getting off the ground. President Bush was in town campaigning for a couple of Republican candidates.
