Nellis AFB, Nevada

Population: 8,896
Located in Clark County

Nellis Air Force Base is the home of the Air Warfare Center, United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron - the Thunderbirds, USAF Weapons School and Red Flag. The Air Warfare Center manages advanced aircrew training and conducts most of the Air Force's fighter and bomber operational test and evaluation requirements. It also manages and is the primary user of the Nellis Air Force Range Complex. The complex is the largest range in the United States. Operating under the Air Warfare Center are the 57th Wing and 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis AFB and the 53rd Wing at Eglin AFB, FL.

Nellis AFB, an integral part of the United States Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC), is known as the "Home of the Fighter Pilot." It is the Mecca of advanced air combat aviation training. The base's all-encompassing mission is accomplished through an array of aircraft: A-10, F- 15C, F- 15E, F­16, RQ-1A Predator UAV, and HH-60 helicopters. Nellis' work force of approximately 10,000 military and civilian personnel make it one of the largest single employers in southern Nevada.

The base is located approximately 8 miles northeast from downtown Las Vegas in North Las Vegas covering more than 11,000 acres, while the total land area occupied by Nellis and its restricted ranges is more than 5,000 square miles. An additional 7,700 square miles of airspace north and east of the restricted ranges are also available for military flight operations.

A Western Air Express dirt runway, a water well and a small operations shack 8 miles north of Las Vegas was the setting of the original site of today's Nellis Air Force Base.
On Jan. 25, 1941, Las Vegas Mayor John L. Russell signed over the property to the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps for the development of a flexible gunnery school for the Army Air Corps.

The mission of the new school, the Las Vegas Army Air Corps Gunnery School (later re-named the Las Vegas Army Air Field (LVAAF)), was defined as "training of aerial gunners to the degree of proficiency that will qualify them for combat duty."

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