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Al Udeid Air Base

Al Udeid Air Base is a Qatari air base southwest of Doha hosting the largest US military installation in the Middle East, built by Qatar in 1996.

Andersen Air Force Base

Andersen Air Force Base is a US Air Force base on Guam, opened as North Field in 1944 and home to the 36th Wing, the Air Force's main Indo-Pacific staging base.

Andrews Air Force Base

Andrews Air Force Base, now Joint Base Andrews, is a US Air Force base in Camp Springs, Maryland, serving as the home of Air Force One.

Area 51

Area 51, also known as Groom Lake, is a highly restricted U.S. Air Force flight-test facility in southern Nevada, established in 1955 by the CIA to test the U-2 spy plane.

Aviano Air Base

Aviano Air Base is an Italian Air Force base in northeastern Italy that has hosted US Air Force units since 1954 and is home to the 31st Fighter Wing.

Bagram Airfield

Bagram Airfield, also known as Bagram Air Base, is a military airfield in Parwan province, Afghanistan, about 25 miles north of Kabul, built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

Barksdale Air Force Base

Barksdale Air Force Base is a US Air Force base in Bossier City, Louisiana, headquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command and home to B-52 bombers.

Beale Air Force Base

Beale Air Force Base, formerly Camp Beale, is a US Air Force base in Yuba County, California, home to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and the nation's only U-2 fleet.

Belaya (Белая) (air base)

Belaya (Белая) is a Russian Long-Range Aviation air base in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, hosting heavy bomber regiments with Tu-22M3, Tu-95MS, and Tu-160 aircraft, struck by Ukrainian drones in June 2025.

Cheyenne Mountain Complex

The Cheyenne Mountain Complex, also called the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, is a hardened underground NORAD command facility near Colorado Springs, Colorado, operational since 1966.

Clark Air Base

Clark Air Base, also known as Clark Field, was the largest United States overseas military air base in the Philippines, abandoned after the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption.

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Tucson, Arizona, established in 1925, home to the 355th Wing and the Boneyard, which stores about 5,000 retired military aircraft.

Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base, formerly Muroc Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force base in California's Mojave Desert, the Air Force's principal center for flight test and evaluation.

Eglin Air Force Base

Eglin Air Force Base, also known as Eglin Field, is a US Air Force base in the Florida Panhandle and the Air Force's center for weapons testing.

Eielson Air Force Base

Eielson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation about 25 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska, and home of the 354th Fighter Wing, which flies F-35s.

Fort Wainwright

Fort Wainwright is a US Army installation near Fairbanks, Alaska, formerly Ladd Field and Ladd Air Force Base, a WWII cold-weather test station and Lend-Lease aircraft transfer point, renamed in 1961 for General Jonathan M. Wainwright.

Holloman Air Force Base

Holloman Air Force Base, established in New Mexico in 1942 as Alamogordo Air Field, is a US Air Force base that trains F-16 and MQ-9 pilots.

Hunter Army Airfield

Hunter Army Airfield, also known as Hunter AAF, is a United States Army airfield in Savannah, Georgia, opened as an airport in 1929 and a military field since 1940.

Incirlik Air Base

Incirlik Air Base, formerly Adana Air Base, is a joint Turkish–American air base near Adana, Turkey, hosting the U.S. Air Force's 39th Air Base Wing.

Jersey Airport

Jersey Airport is the airport serving the Channel Island of Jersey, located in St Peter about 4 nautical miles northwest of St Helier and opened in 1937.

Joint Base Andrews

Joint Base Andrews (JB Andrews) is a US military base in Prince George's County, Maryland, formed in 2009 and best known as the home of Air Force One.

Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam

Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (JBPHH) is a US military installation on Oahu, Hawaii, formed in 2010 by merging Naval Station Pearl Harbor with Hickam Air Force Base.

Joint Base San Antonio

Joint Base San Antonio is a United States military installation in San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2010 from Fort Sam Houston, Lackland, and Randolph Air Force Base.

Kadena Air Base (嘉手納飛行場)

Kadena Air Base is a United States Air Force base on Okinawa, Japan, home to the 18th Wing and the largest US Air Force presence in East Asia.

Kalma Airport

Kalma Airport, formally Wonsan Kalma International Airport, is a dual-use civilian and military airport east of Wonsan, North Korea, which opened in 2015 and mainly hosts air force drills and air shows.

Kunsan Air Base

Kunsan Air Base is a United States Air Force installation on South Korea's west coast, home of the 8th Fighter Wing, the "Wolf Pack," flying F-16s.

Lackland Air Force Base

Lackland Air Force Base is a US Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, known as the Gateway to the Air Force, where all enlisted recruits begin basic training.

Lajes Field

Lajes Field, also known as Lajes Air Base, is a Portuguese Air Force base on Terceira Island in the Azores that hosts US forces and serves as a transatlantic refueling stop.

Langley Air Force Base

Langley Air Force Base is a US Air Force base in Hampton, Virginia, established in 1916 and home of Air Combat Command and the 1st Fighter Wing's F-22s.

List of former Royal Air Force stations

The list of former Royal Air Force stations covers airfields and other sites the RAF has occupied and since closed, handed over, or sold since 1918.