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Hill Air Force Base,
Utah
General Information
Construction of
Hill Air Force Base began in 1940. It is
located on 6698 acres of land with over
1400 buildings and 13 million square feet
of floor space.
There are 228 miles
of roadway, 28 miles of railway, and a
13,500 foot runway with over 40,000
takeoffs and landings annually.
Hill is named after
Maj. Ployer (Pete) Hill, an early aviator
who died in 1935 while piloting a
prototype B-17 Flying Fortress
Community Impact
The annual base
payroll is around $750 million.
Total impact on
Utah economy is nearly $2 billion
Nearly $696 million
in annual contracts are awarded.
More than $800,000
contributed annually to the Combined
Federal Campaign, with 60 percent going
to local charities.Employees volunteer
thousands of hours annually to tutor and
work with students, scouts, church
projects, city governments and other
organizations.
The base cooperates
with state government, industry and
academia to transfer Air Force owned or
developed technology to society and the
marketplace.
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Hill Organizations
Ogden Air Logistics
Center is the host unit and largest
organization at Hill AFB.
Two premiere
fighter wings make their home at Hill AFB:
the 388th Fighter Wing (Active) and 419th
Fighter Wing (Reserve).
75th Air Base Wing
is responsible for the fundamental base
operating support of all units at Hill
AFB.
The Utah Test &
Training Range (UTTR):
located 50
miles west of the base on 2,675
square miles of land.
used by all
military services to fly more
than 22,000 training sorties and
1,000 test sorties annually.
used for
testing munitions and propellants
up to the most powerful ICBM
rocket motors.
largest
special use airspace over land
within the continental U.S.
More than 40
tenants are supported, including:
84th Radar
Evaluation Squadron
659th
Combat Logistics Support Squadron
Defense
Logistics Agency
Defense
Enterprise Computer Center Ogden,
a Defense Information Services
Agency regional center
Army non-tactical
generator and rail equipment
repair center
Army Corps
of Engineers
Air Force
regional recruiting center
U.S. Forest
Service
Defense
Audit Agency
Air Force
Office of Special Investigation
Ogden Air Logistics
Center Mission
OO-ALC provides
worldwide engineering and logistics
management for the F-16 Fighting Falcon
and A-10 Thunderbolt.
The center provides
depot repair, modification and
maintenance of the F-16, A-10 Thunderbolt
and C-130 Hercules aircraft.
More than 500
aircraft and 62,500 end items are
produced annually 36,500 electronic/instrument
items, 21,000 avionics items, and 5,000
generator/rewind/component items.
Hill AFB is
responsible for worldwide logistics
management and repair for the nation’s
fleet of strategic intercontinental
ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which
includes the Minuteman and Peacekeeper
missiles.
The center is a key
player in Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
activities
The center
overhauls and repairs landing gear,
wheels and brakes for all Air Force
aircraft and 70 percent of DOD aircraft;
rocket motors; air munitions and guided
bombs; photonics equipment; training
devices; avionics; instruments;
hydraulics; software and other aerospace
related components.
The center provides
acquisition, depot maintenance,
engineering, storage, testing and control
of more than an $11 billion inventory for
more than 400 bases worldwide.
OO-ALC has a
premier software development, test,
maintenance and consultation capacity
with a Level 5 Capability Maturity Model
rating.
New repair
workloads including reentry vehicles, gas
turbine engines, and additional
hydraulics and aircraft instruments
transitioned to OO-ALC during FY 99-01.
Logistics
management of mature and proven aircraft
and various space and C3I programs has
also moved to Hill.
James
E. Bohne, Jr., REALTOR®
Mobile: (801) 791-9579
Office: (801) 476-9500
Fax: (801) 476-9581
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