Homestead AAF

  16 September 1942 to present

  United States of America

CITY: Homestead, FL

IATA/ICAO CODES: HST / KHST

OTHER NAMES: Homestead AAF (1942-1955), Homestead AFB (1955-1994), Homestead ARB (1994-present)

Homestead AAF was home to the Air Transport Command's 2^nd Operational Training Unit (2 OTU), and several Commandos were based there for crew training. The base was inactivated in December 1945 after receiving major damage from a hurricane three months earlier. It reopened only in 1955 as a Strategic Air Command base.

563^rd & 564^th AAF Base Unit (Homestead AAF)

Air Transport Command, 2^nd Operational Training Unit (2 OTU)

20^th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 1^st Air Transport Squadron (Mobile) (March 1944 to May 1944)

20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2^nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile) (April 1944 to June 1944)

20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3^rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile) (March 1944 to July 1944)