Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command, one of the major commands of the Air Force. “Wright-Patt”, as the base is usually called around the area, is also the location of a major USAF Medical Center and the Air Force Institute of Technology. It is also the home base of the 445th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command, which flies the C-5 Galaxy heavy airlifter, and it is the headquarters of the Air Force Research Laboratory.
The Air Force base located in Greene and Montgomery counties is located within the city limits of Riverside and is also adjacent to Fairborn and Beavercreek. The base is named after the Wright brothers, who used the Huffman Prairie portion of what became Wright-Patt as their testing ground, and Frank Stuart Patterson, son and nephew of the co-founders of National Cash Register (known today as NCR), who was killed on June 19, 1918, in a crash of his Airco DH.4 at Wilbur Wright Field.
WPAFB was opened in 1917 as Wilbur Wright Field to train pilots and gunners during WWI, followed shortly by the creation of the adjacent Fairfield Air Depot.
The triangular airfield is now the location of the National Museum of the United States Air Force. and its adjoining installation remained known as Wright Field. In 1948 the two fields were merged under the name Wright-Patterson AFB.Wright Field has been alleged to be the final destination for the debris from the 1947 Roswell UFO incident, Hangar 18 in particular.
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