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Mountain Home Army Air Field

Mountain Home Air Force Base
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Part of Air Combat Command (ACC)
Located near: Mountain Home, Idaho
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F-15Es over the Sawtooth Range in 2000;
366th Operations Group (AF# 90-0233, 90–0248)
Coordinates 43°02′N 115°52′W / 43.04°N 115.87°W / 43.04; -115.87 (Mountain Home AFB)
Site information
Controlled by  United States Air Force
Site history
Built 1942; 75 years ago (1942)
In use 1942 – present
Garrison information
Garrison 366th Fighter Wing.png 366th Fighter Wing,  Singapore 428th Fighter Squadron of the Republic of Singapore Air Force
Airfield information
Summary
Elevation AMSL 2,996 ft / 913 m
Coordinates 43°02′N 115°52′W / 43.04°N 115.87°W / 43.04; -115.87Coordinates: 43°02′N 115°52′W / 43.04°N 115.87°W / 43.04; -115.87
Website mountainhome.af.mil
Map
KMUO is located in USA West
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KMUO is located in Idaho
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Location in Idaho in the western United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 13,508 4,117 PEM

Mountain Home Air Force Base (IATA: MUOICAO: KMUOFAA LID: MUO) is a United States Air Force installation in the western United States. Located in southwestern Idaho in Elmore County, the base is twelve miles (20 km) southwest of Mountain Home, which is forty miles (65 km) southeast of Boise via Interstate 84. The base is also used by the Republic of Singapore Air Force which has a detachment of F-15SG fighters on long term assignment to the base.

The host unit at Mountain Home since 1972 has been the 366th Fighter Wing (366 FW) of the Air Combat Command (ACC), nicknamed the "Gunfighters." The base's primary mission is to provide combat airpower and combat support capabilities to respond to and sustain worldwide contingency operations.

Constructed in the early 1940s during World War II as a training base for bombers, after the war it briefly had transports, then was a bomber and missile base. It became a fighter base 51 years ago in 1966.

Part of the base is a census-designated place (CDP); the population was 3,238 at the 2010 census.


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