Fairchild Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base, located in the northwest United States in eastern Washington, approximately twelve miles southwest of Spokane.
The host unit at Fairchild is the 92nd Air Refueling Wing assigned to the Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force. The 92 ARW is responsible for providing air refueling, as well as passenger and cargo airlift and aero-medical evacuation missions supporting U.S. and coalition conventional operations as well as U.S. Strategic Command strategic deterrence missions.
Fairchild AFB was established 82 years ago in 1942 as the Spokane Army Air Depot. and is named in honor of General Muir S. Fairchild; a World War I aviator from the state, he was the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force at the time of his death.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Air_Force_Base
Address Fairchild Air Force Base 99011, United States
Coordinates 47°37'7.14" N -117°38'54.007" E
