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Pacific · from 1940

Yokota Air Base

Japan-US air force base in Fussa, Tokyo, Japan.

History

Yokota Air Base (横田飛行場, Yokota Hikōjō) (IATA: OKO, ICAO: RJTY) is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) and United States Air Force (USAF) base in the Tama Area, or Western Tokyo.

It occupies portions of Akishima, Fussa, Hamura, Mizuho, Musashimurayama, and Tachikawa.

The base houses about 14,000 personnel. It occupies a total area of 7.07 km2 (2.73 sq mi) and has a 3,353 m × 61 m (11,001 ft × 200 ft) runway.

It features the JASDF Air Defense Command Headquarters (ADC headquarters) since 26 March 2012. The headquarters of United States Forces Japan is also located there. Other base facilities are the broadcast center for the American Forces Network Tokyo radio service and a detachment of Pacific Air Forces' Band of the Pacific.

Text from Wikipedia: Yokota Air Base, CC BY-SA 4.0, lightly trimmed.

Key dates

  1. 1940
    The facility that houses Yokota Air Base was built during World War II by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in 1940.
  2. 1957
    The 35th TFW was reassigned in 1957 and the 67th TRW in 1960.
  3. 1968
    With the reassignment of the 347th Fighter Wing to Yokota in 1968, the 347th assumed responsibility for all tactical fighters until its reassignment to Kunsan Air Base, South Korea in March 1971.
  4. 1974
    Headquarters, Fifth Air Force was transferred to Yokota on 11 November 1974 from Fuchū Air Base, Japan.
  5. 2012
    On 21 March 2012 JASDF units completed moving from Fuchū Air Base (Tokyo).
  6. 2015
    A new "21st century" school started construction in 2015 and finished in 2017.
  7. 2017
    Still, some metal manhole covers stamped "WAAB" remained in use around the base in 2017.
  8. 2018
    On 5 April 2018 five CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft deployed to the base.
  9. 2020
    In 2020 and 2021, it was canceled due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dates and events quoted from the same Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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