Scott Air Force Base

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Scott Air Force Base
Scott AFB Welcome Sign.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code KBLV
IATA code FSVO
Coordinates

38 ° 32 '43 "  N , 89 ° 50' 7"  W Coordinates: 38 ° 32 '43 "  N , 89 ° 50' 7"  W.
Height above MSL 140 m (459  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 12 km northeast of Belleville ,
31 km southeast of St. Louis
Street I-64 / IL 4 / IL 158
Basic data
opening 1917/1997
(military / civil)
operator United States Air Force
surface 2834 ha
Passengers 302,000 (2018)
Flight
movements 		20,353 (2018)
Runways
14R / 32L 2439 m × 46 m asphalt / concrete
14L / 32R 3048 m × 46 m
concrete

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The Scott Air Force Base (AFB Scott) is a base of the US Air Force near the city of Belleville in the state of Illinois , which the greater metropolitan area of St. Louis is one. The headquarters of the Air Mobility Command , the United States Transportation Command , the 18th Air Force and the Air Force Communications Agency are located on Scott AFB . According to the United States Census Bureau, the base covers an area of ​​9.7 square kilometers . On this site live (2000 data) 2,707 people with a population density of 278.7 / km². The Air Force Base is used in parallel as a civil airport, this is called MidAmerica St. Louis Airport .

history

During the First World War , a new airfield was built on an area of ​​around 2,500 m² near Belleville, Illinois. According to the government at the time, it was named after the coporal Frank S. Scott , the first US soldier to be killed in an airplane accident.

Pilot training began in September 1917. Curtiss JN-3D aircraft were mainly used for training . These were also used to develop medical evacuation aircraft. This early form of air evacuation for medical reasons would play a major role in the further history of Scott AFB. After the end of the First World War , the units at the base were demobilized. In 1919 the War Department bought the airport and it became the base of part of the forerunner of the later US Air Force , the Air Corps . These parts of the Air Corps were stationed here until 1937. On June 2, 1938, it was decided to make Scott Air Force Base the headquarters of the United States Army Air Forces .

In September 1991, the US Air Force and St. Clair County signed an agreement on the civilian use of the airport. This included the construction of the 2,438 meter long runway 14L / 32R and the roughly 2,134 meter long taxiway that connects the civil and military parts of the airport. St. Clair County purchased 1690 acres of land between 1992 and 1995 for the construction of the civil airport.

In July 1993, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) recommended the closure of the O'Hare Air Reserve Station . The units stationed there should be relocated to another base. The city of Chicago would bear the cost of erecting new buildings on the new base . In July 1995 the BRAC announced that it had found a suitable location for the 126th Air Refueling Wing of the Illinois Air National Guard at Scott Air Force Base . The prerequisite for this was the expansion of the new runway 14L / 32R to 3,048 meters so that it could be used without restrictions by the Boeing KC-135 of the 126th Air Refueling Wing. In October 1996 the US government reached an agreement with the city of Chicago, and the extension of runway 14L / 32R was then implemented. The opening of the MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in November 1997th

Traffic figures

Busiest routes

Busiest national routes from St. Louis – Belleville (2018)
rank city Passengers airline
01 Destin – Fort Walton Beach , Florida 31,900 Allegiant
02 St. Petersburg , Florida 26,490 Allegiant
03 Punta Gorda , Florida 23,740 Allegiant
04th Orlando – Sanford , Florida 22,090 Allegiant
05 Las Vegas , Nevada 14,480 Allegiant
06th Fort Lauderdale , Florida 09,980 Allegiant
07th Jacksonville , Florida 09,270 Allegiant
08th Phoenix-Mesa , Arizona 09,250 Allegiant
09 Myrtle Beach , South Carolina 04,790 Allegiant

Web links

Commons : Scott Air Force Base  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b AirportIQ 5010: Scott Air Force Base / MidAmerica. GCR1.com, accessed April 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Belleville, IL: Scott AFB / MidAmerica (BLV). Transtats.BTS.gov , accessed April 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ History and issues influencing the development of MidAmerica St. Louis Airport and the need for an updated joint use agreement with Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. FlyMidAmerica.com, July 2015, accessed June 6, 2017 .
  4. ^ Flight Information. FlyMidAmerica.com, accessed April 4, 2019 .