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Altus AFB

Altus Air Force Base
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Part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC)
Located near: Altus, Oklahoma
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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

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97th Air Mobility Wing
Airfield information
Summary
Elevation AMSL 1,382 ft / 421 m
Coordinates 34°39′50″N 099°16′05″W / 34.66389°N 99.26806°W / 34.66389; -99.26806Coordinates: 34°39′50″N 099°16′05″W / 34.66389°N 99.26806°W / 34.66389; -99.26806
Website www.altus.af.mil
Map
KLTS is located in Oklahoma
KLTS
KLTS
Location of Altus Air Force Base
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17R/35L 13,440 4,097 Concrete
17L/35R 9,001 2,744 Asphalt
174/354 3,501 1,067 Asphalt

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Altus Air Force Base (AAFB) (IATA: LTSICAO: KLTSFAA 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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