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Rice Army Air Field
Rice Army Air Field (also known as Rice Air Base or Rice AAF) is an abandoned World War II airfield in Rice Valley of the southern Mojave Desert, located east-southeast of the community of Rice, California, Rice. The airfield is located in Riverside County, California, Riverside County just south of the San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino county line and State Route 62 (California), State Route 62. Wartime use Rice AAF was acquired 29 September 1942 and was part of the World War II Desert Training Center in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. It apparently was a civil airfield before the war, known as "Rice Municipal Airport", its origins are unknown. The mission of the training center was to prepare United States Army ground forces in preparation for Operation Torch – the invasion of North Africa. The center was commanded by then Brigadier general (United States), Brigadier General George S. Patton, George Patton. The facility was assigned to United ...
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Airports Established In 1942
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Military In Riverside County, California
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Military Facilities In The Mojave Desert
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Airfields Of The United States Army Air Forces In California
An aerodrome, airfield, or airstrip is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use. Aerodromes include small general aviation airfields, large commercial airports, and military air bases. The term ''airport'' may imply a certain stature (having satisfied certain certification criteria or regulatory requirements) that not all aerodromes may have achieved. That means that all airports are aerodromes, but not all aerodromes are airports. Usage of the term "aerodrome" (or "airfield") remains more common in Commonwealth English, and is conversely almost unknown in American English, where the term "airport" is applied almost exclusively. A water aerodrome is an area of open water used regularly by seaplanes, floatplanes or amphibious aircraft for landing and taking off. In formal terminology, as defined by the International Civil Aviation ...
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Airports In Riverside County, California
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off and to land or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals, to maintain and monitor aircraft. Larger airports may have airport aprons, taxiway bridges, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. In some countries, the US in particular, airports also typically have one or more fixed-base operators, serving general aviation. Airport operations are extremely complex, with a complicated system of aircraft support services, passenger services, and aircraft control services contained within the operation. Thus airports can be major employers, as well as important hubs for tourism an ...
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Rice Solar Energy Project
The Rice Solar Energy Project was a 150 MW concentrating solar power Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a receiver. Electricity is generated whe ... facility project proposed for Rice Valley in the southern Mojave Desert, within Riverside County, California, Riverside County in southern California. It was put on indefinite hold in 2014. Description Proposed by Rice Solar, a subsidiary of SolarReserve, the thermal solar power tower, power tower facility would have been located on of private land on the site of the former Rice Army Airfield, near the former settlement of Rice, California, Rice. The project's innovative molten salt storage system was to capture solar energy and deliver power to the grid even after the sun goes down. The facility was "expected to power 68,000 homes, create up to 450 constructio ...
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March AFB
March Air Reserve Base (March ARB), previously known as March Air Force Base (March AFB), is located in Riverside County, California, between the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley, and Perris. It is the home to the Air Force Reserve Command's Fourth Air Force (4 AF) Headquarters and the host of the 452nd Air Mobility Wing (452 AMW), the largest air mobility wing of the Fourth Air Force. In addition to multiple units of the Air Force Reserve Command supporting Air Mobility Command, Air Combat Command and Pacific Air Forces, March ARB is also home to units from the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, California Air National Guard and the California Army National Guard. For almost 50 years, March AFB was a Strategic Air Command base during the Cold War. The facility covers of land., effective June 13, 2024. Units On 1 January 1994, the 722d Air Refueling Wing was activated at then-March AFB to replace the 22d Air Refueling Wing, which was moving to M ...
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15th Bombardment Training Wing (World War II)
The 15th Bombardment Training Wing is a disbanded United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Second Air Force, at Colorado Springs Army Air Base, Colorado, where it was inactivated on 9 April 1946. History The wing was activated at March Field, California in December 1940 and assigned to the Southwest Air District. Its operational components were the 47th and 48th Bombardment GroupsMaurer, ''Combat Units'', pp. 384-385 In September 1941, the wing was inactivated and its personnel used to form the 4th Air Support Command.Futrell, p. 13 It trained groups and heavy bombardment replacement crews for Second Air Force June 1942 until February 1945 when it ceased all activity. Lineage * Constituted as the 15th Bombardment Wing on 19 October 1940 : Activated on 18 December 1940 : Inactivated on 3 September 1941 * Activated on 23 June 1942 : Redesignated 15th Bombardment Training Wing in January 1943 : Redesignated 15th Bombardment Operational Training Wing in April ...
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