Not to be confused with the 1942 'Alamo Airport' south of Las Vegas and named for Senator McCarran in 1948. 'The 60 × 90 mile area at Tonopah was transferred to the War Department on 29 October 1940' by Executive Order 8578. After the Invasion of Poland in 1939, the 'western site board' had located a southern Nevada area 'near Tonopah, Nev' by April 1940 for a military range, and in October 1940, Air Corps Major David Schlatter surveyed the southwest United States for a military airfield. Whitefield for landing sites, and by 'mid-1925 the Air Service possessed information on nearly thirty-five hundred landing places, including more than twenty-eight hundred emergency landing areas, in the United States.' The 1929 airfield (dirt runway, water well, and small operations shack) north of Las Vegas-operated by the 1925 Western Air Express for Contract Air Mail (CAM) Route #4, LA-to- SLC-was used by the Army Air Corps in the 1930s for training flights. Contentsįor this base's eponym who was KIA in the 1944 European Theater of Operations, see 1st Lt William Nellis.Īfter World War I, Nevada and other western inland states were surveyed by Capt. The base also has the Combined Air and Space Operations Center-Nellis. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West flown in ' Military Operations Area (MOA) airspace', associated with the nearby Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). Nellis Air Force Base (' Nellis' colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada with military schools and more squadrons than any other USAF base.

IATA: LSV, ICAO: KLSV, FAA LID: LSV, WMO: 723865

Joint Electromagnetic Preparedness for Advanced Combat.

365th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group.

Yes, with restrictions ( Thunderbirds Museum and tours)ġ941 ( 1941) (as Las Vegas Army Airfield)

Nellis air force base fallout