Maxwell Air Force Base

Maxwell Air Force Base
Part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC)
Located in Montgomery, Alabama
Air Command and Staff College trains strategic leaders at Maxwell AFB
Coordinates	32°22′45″N 086°21′45″W / 32.37917°N 86.36250°W / 32.37917; -86.36250 (Maxwell AFB)
Site information
Controlled by	United States Air Force
Site history
Built	1910
In use	1910–present
Garrison information
Garrison	42d Air Base Wing

Airfield information
IATA: MXF ICAO: KMXF FAA LID: MXF
Summary
Elevation AMSL	171 ft / 52 m
Coordinates	32°22′45″N 086°21′45″W / 32.37917°N 86.36250°W / 32.37917; -86.36250Coordinates: 32°22′45″N 086°21′45″W / 32.37917°N 86.36250°W / 32.37917; -86.36250
Website	www.maxwell.af.mil
Map
KMXF Location of Maxwell Air Force Base
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 15/33 8,013 2,442 Asphalt 18/36 (assault training rwy) 3,015 919 Asphalt

Maxwell Air Force Base (IATA: MXF, ICAO: KMXF, FAA LID: MXF), officially known as Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation under the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The installation is located in Montgomery, Alabama, US. Occupying the site of the first Wright Flying School, it was named in honor of Second Lieutenant William C. Maxwell, a native of Atmore, Alabama.

The base is the headquarters of Air University (AU), a major component of Air Education and Training Command (AETC), and is the U.S. Air Force's center for Joint Professional Military Education (PME). The host wing for Maxwell-Gunter is the 42d Air Base Wing (42 ABW).

The Air Force Reserve Command's 908th Airlift Wing (908 AW) is a tenant unit and the only operational flying unit at Maxwell. The 908 AW and its subordinate 357th Airlift Squadron (357 AS) operates eight C-130H Hercules aircraft for theater airlift in support of combatant commanders worldwide. As an AFRC airlift unit, the 908th is operationally gained by the Air Mobility Command (AMC).