Altus AFB

Altus Air Force Base
Part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC)
Located near: Altus, Oklahoma
Loading a C-17 Globemaster III at Altus AFB
Coordinates	34°39′59″N 099°16′05″W / 34.66639°N 99.26806°W / 34.66639; -99.26806 (Altus AFB)
Site information
Controlled by	United States Air Force
Site history
Built	1942
In use	1942 – present
Garrison information
Garrison	97th Air Mobility Wing

Airfield information

IATA: LTS
ICAO: KLTS
FAA LID: LTS

Summary

Elevation AMSL

1,382 ft / 421 m

Coordinates

34°39′50″N 099°16′05″W / 34.66389°N 99.26806°WCoordinates: 34°39′50″N 099°16′05″W / 34.66389°N 99.26806°W

Website

www.altus.af.mil

Map

KLTS

Location of Altus Air Force Base

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
17R/35L	13,440	4,097	Concrete
17L/35R	9,001	2,744	Asphalt
174/354	3,501	1,067	Asphalt

Source: Federal Aviation Administration

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Altus Air Force Base (AAFB) (IATA: LTS, ICAO: KLTS, FAA LID: LTS) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east-northeast of Altus, Oklahoma.

The host unit at Altus AFB is the 97th Air Mobility Wing (97 AMW), assigned to the Nineteenth Air Force (19 AF) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The wing's mission is to provide C-17 Globemaster III and KC-135 Stratotanker formal initial and advanced specialty training programs for up to 3000 flight crew and aircraft maintenance students annually.

Altus AFB was established in 1943 as Altus Army Airfield (AAF). The 97 AMW commander is Colonel Todd A. Hohn. The Command Chief Master Sergeant is [1].

The 97 AMW consists of the following major units:

Between 1945 and 1953, Altus served as a scrap yard for hundreds of World War II era military aircraft. In 1945 the famous B-17F "Memphis Belle" was discovered at Altus awaiting disposal. The aircraft was saved and transferred to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, where it was displayed until 2005, when it was relocated to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.

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