Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base

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Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base
Near Columbus, Ohio in the United States
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A KC-135R Stratotanker of the Ohio Air National Guard's 121st Air Refuelling Wing touches down at Rickenbacker ANGB during 2012.
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Rickenbacker ANGB
Location in the United States
Coordinates 39°48′49″N082°56′48″W / 39.81361°N 82.94667°W / 39.81361; -82.94667
TypeAir National Guard Base
Site information
Owner Department of Defense
Operator US Air Force (USAF)
Controlled by Ohio Air National Guard (ANG)
ConditionOperational
Website www.121arw.ang.af.mil
Site history
Built1940s (as Lockbourne Army Airfield)
In use1940s – present
Garrison information
Current
commander
Colonel David B. Johnson
Garrison 121st Air Refueling Wing
Airfield information
Identifiers IATA: LCK, ICAO: KLCK, FAA LID: LCK, WMO: 724285
Elevation226.7 metres (744 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
5R/23L3,688.6 metres (12,102 ft)  Asphalt/concrete
5L/23R3,627.7 metres (11,902 ft) Asphalt
Airfield shared with Rickenbacker International Airport.
Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1]

Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base is an Ohio Air National Guard installation at Rickenbacker International Airport near Lockbourne in southern Franklin County. The base was named for the famous early aviator and Columbus native Eddie Rickenbacker. It is the home of the 121st Air Refueling Wing (121 ARW), an Air National Guard (ANG) unit that serves as the host wing and operates in federal service under the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC).

Rickenbacker ANGB operates at the airport as a tenant of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority, sharing the facility with commercial airlines and other civilian aircraft operators. The air base is a joint military facility whose own tenant activities include the Ohio Army National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility #2, Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve units, and associated facilities.

During World War II, the installation was a U.S. Army Air Forces training base known as Lockbourne Army Airfield, becoming an Air Force base in 1948 a few months following the establishment of the United States Air Force as an independent branch of the U.S. armed forces. The base was named Lockbourne AFB from 1948 to 1974 and later Rickenbacker AFB from 1974 to 1980. The facility was transferred from Strategic Air Command and the active duty Air Force on 1 April 1980 and turned over to the Air National Guard.

Further reading

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base. United States Air Force.

  1. "Airport Diagram – Rickenbacker Intl (LCK)" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

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