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    Chanute Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois...
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    technical training at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, and Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, when those bases were closed by Base Realignment and Closure...
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    grounds of the decommissioned Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. It and the base were named for Octave Chanute, railroad engineer and aviation pioneer...
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  • pioneer Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, United States Octave Chanute Award, awarded by the Western Society of Engineers since 1901 Chanute Flight Award...
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  • closing five Air Force bases: Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois, George Air Force Base, Mather Air Force Base and Norton Air Force Base in California...
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    Goodfellow Air Force Base is a nonflying United States Air Force base located in San Angelo, Texas, United States. As part of Air Education and Training...
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    Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, which detailed the history of Chanute Air Force Base and of aviation in general, and included a replica of Chanute's 1896...
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    Scott Air Force Base (IATA: BLV, ICAO: KBLV, FAA LID: BLV) is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon...
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    Lowry Air Force Base (Lowry Field from 1938–1948) is a former United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) training base during World War II and a United States...
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    Wurtsmith Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force base in Iosco County, Michigan. Near Lake Huron, it operated for seventy years, from...
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  • of several airlines in the late 1920s, the oldest of these being Varney Air Lines, created in 1926 by Walter Varney who later co-founded the predecessor...
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  • Air Force Base, Canal Zone, (Closed 1997) France Air Force Base, Canal Zone, (Closed 1949) Howard Air Force Base, Canal Zone, (Closed 1999) Ramey Air...
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    Gunter Air Force Station, Alabama; personnel courses moved to Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas and firefighting courses to Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois...
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    the air base primarily operated training aircraft as well as seaplanes on nearby Lake Michigan during World War II. Reconfigured as a Naval Air Reserve...
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  • of Illinois. Carmi Air Force Station, Carmi, Illinois (closed in 1957; now site of Carmi Municipal Airport) Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois...
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    1930s, Chanute Field grew, dominating the local economy as thousands of airmen were stationed there to train recruits. Renamed Chanute Air Force Base after...
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    announced that Chanute Air Force Base was a candidate for closure. After the decision was made in March of 1979 to retain Chanute Air Force Base as a viable...
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    coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Mather Air Force Base (Mather AFB) was a United States Air Force Base, which was closed in 1993 pursuant to a post-Cold...
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    Randolph Air Force Base, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. AETC is the primary training and professional education command in the Air Force. More than 48...
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    Force Base, which moved to Greenville AFB, MS, and, in 1964 to Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois. In 1992, the school was moved finally to Goodfellow...
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    at Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, California. Previously displayed at the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul...
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    Frank Worth Elliott Jr. (category United States Air Force generals)
    commander of the 14th Strategic Aerospace Division, and commander of Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. Elliott also held the distinction of having...
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    Ulysses S. Grant Homes, both in Galena; and the Chanute Air Museum, located on the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul. The Chicago metropolitan area also...
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    States Air Force used the field extensively during the Korean War; the airport then had no scheduled airline service. Although not its primary base in the...
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    coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Williams Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located in Maricopa County, Arizona, east of...
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    bombs for the first week of Israeli air attacks on Gaza that were shipped from a US Air Force base by Israeli Air Force. During the Israel-Gaza war (2023-present)...
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    hosting large-scale air shows with the Midwest AirFest. From 1986 to 1994, the show would twice feature the United States Air Force Thunderbirds.[citation...
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  • AAR Corp (category Companies based in DuPage County, Illinois)
    all U.S. Air Force and contractor requisitions received for all C-130, KC-135 & E-3 landing gear parts. In September 2019, the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command...
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    2019, the World Championship announced its intent to relocate to Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois, and return for 2019. Organizers cited better...
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    Michael Collins (astronaut) (category U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni)
    late 1957, he attended an aircraft maintenance officer course at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. He would later describe this school as "dismal" in his...
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